No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth,
but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter of the alphabet.
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The words 'racecar,'
'kayak' , and 'level'
are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Interestng. Bob
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Re: For Neville.
Very true Bob.
In fact the hairs in our noses and ears never stop growing.
I think that there were possibly a lot of English words that ended in MT before standardised spelling, The T ending was used where we now put ED. Can't think of any examples at the moment, so I may be proved wrong.


I think that there were possibly a lot of English words that ended in MT before standardised spelling, The T ending was used where we now put ED. Can't think of any examples at the moment, so I may be proved wrong.

Neville
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