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Magic
19-01-2008, 03:02 PM
'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand .

And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'. ?

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet. (

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

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.'

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Tom
19-01-2008, 03:20 PM
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it
wouthit porbelm.Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter
by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Billy
19-01-2008, 03:21 PM
lmfao i understood that

Matt
19-01-2008, 03:21 PM
Originally posted by Magic-Shoes

'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand .

Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious.

I typed the above word entirely with my left hand.




And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.


Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious.

I typed the above word entirely with my right hand.




No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

Nonsense. There is "nonth" (a month consisting of no days), "storange" (a storage system for oranges), "pilver" (a derivative of the word pilverise, which itself is a derivative of the word pulverise) and "turple" (a turtle with a purple shell).




'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'. ?

Wrong. There is "stormt" - an area which a storm has passed through - e.g. "This street has been stormt!".





The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.

Yes.





The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

You don't say...



There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Wrong again. There is "tornadous" - a word to describe how wild a tornado is - e.g. "This tornado is very tornadous!"



There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'

Abstemious is not a word.



TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Wrong, there is "qwertyqwerty", which is basically "qwerty" typed twice.

(No, I'm not bored. I'm joking. :laugh:)

Tom
19-01-2008, 03:27 PM
Originally posted by Matt


Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious.

I typed the above word entirely with my left hand.


It means on the left side of the keyboard, and the way people type without realising. The centre of the keyboard for most people is t or y.


Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious.

I typed the above word entirely with my right hand.

Same as above


Nonsense. There is "nonth" (a month consisting of no days), "storange" (a storage system for oranges), "pilver" (a derivative of the word pilverise, which itself is a derivative of the word pulverise) and "turple" (a turtle with a purple shell).


None of your words are in the dictionary.



Wrong. There is "stormt" - an area which a storm has passed through - e.g. "This street has been stormt!".



Thats not in the dictionary either

There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Thats not in the dictionary either


Abstemious is not a word.

ab·ste·mi·ous /æbˈstimiəs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ab-stee-mee-uhs] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
2. characterized by abstinence: an abstemious life.
3. sparing: an abstemious diet.



Wrong, there is "qwertyqwerty", which is basically "qwerty" typed twice.

Quertyqwerty isn't a word

(No, I'm not bored. :laugh:)

Neither am I [shifty eyes smiley] :joker:

Shaun
19-01-2008, 03:31 PM
I used the right hand to type out Stewardesses then. Actually, now I just didn't...I'm now confused. :sad:

Shaun
19-01-2008, 03:32 PM
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

That's just Helen from BB2. :tongue: