Monday, November 13, 2006

You Can Say That Again! - Language Trivia

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You may speak the English language, but you might not know these cool facts about your native tongue.

There is no word that rhymes with orange, month, silver or purple.

There are approximately 6,000 actively spoken languages in the world today.

Shakespeare invented the word “assassination”.

“One thousand” contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

Rhythms” is the longest English word without vowels.

“Four” is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

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