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| EMI stands for Electrical & Musical Instruments. |
| Way down in 1740, the Admiral Veron of the British fleet decided to water down the navy's rum, which naturally, the sailors weren't pleased with. They nicknamed the Admiral Old Grog, after the still stiff grogram coats he used to wear. The term grog soon began to mean the watered down drink itself. When you are drunk on this this grog, you are "groggy", a word still in use. |
| Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. |
| The acronym I.O.U. actually stands for 'Is Owed Unto'. |
| FOUR has four letters; no other number has this property in English such that the number of letters in the name equals the number. |
| R.S.V.P. comes from the French phrase, 'répondez, s'il vous plaît,' which means 'please reply.' According to western etiquette, you should reply promptly if you receive a formal invitation. |
| "Book" comes from the word liber. Liber is a Latin name that the Romans used for the thin layer of stuff that is found between the wood and bark of a tree. The Romans used to peel the layer away from the tree and use it as paper to write on. |
| The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent". |
| "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. |
| The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9. |
| A group of ravens is called a murder. |
| 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel. |
| The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan." |
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