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- The armhole in clothing is called an armsaye
- The end of a hammer, oppostie the striking end, is called a peen
- Spat-out food if called chanking
- Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox
- Eosophobia is the fear of dawn
- Groaking is to watch people eating food hoping they'll offer you some.
- Dibble means to drink like a duck
- Those things on the end of shoelaces called Aglets
- Zarf is the holder of a handleless coffee cup
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book, Peter Pan
- Tonsurphobia is the fear of haircuts
- Degringolade means to fall and disintegrate
- A sysygy occures when all the planets of our Solar System line up
- The most common letters in english are R S T L N E
- 'Able was I ere I saw Elba' is a palindrome written by Napoleon
- 'A man a plan a canal Panama' is also a palindrome
- A necropsy is an autopsy on animals
- EEG stands Electroencephalogram
- The 7th most common word used on the ineternet is 'HTML'
- The 42 most common word used on the internet is 'INFORMATION'
- There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'purple'
- There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'orange'
- acrophobia is the fear of heights
- nycrophobia is the fear of dakness
- zoophobia is the fear of animals
- claustrophobia is the fear of small spaces
- pyrophobia is the fear of fire
- entomophobia is the fear of insects
- xenophoia is the fear of strangers
- agaraphobia is the fear of open spaces
- Los Angeles' full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de
Porciuncula' and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, 'L.A.'.
- Ukalaily (Ukilaly, you-ki-lay-ley, however it's spelled) is Hawaiian for "jumping flies"
- Lycanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's a wolf. It is the scientific name for "wolf man" or, wearwolf.
- Koala is Aboriginal for "no drink".
- One who busies themself with the quadrature of a cirlce is called a tetragondzein.
- cyclometer - one who is taken by the measure of a circle.
- piet - one who is obsessed with pi.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous" - tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"
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