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| S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.. |
| There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein. |
| When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau." |
| The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmentarianism". |
| Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order. |
| The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'. |
| There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility. |
| "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." |
| The two longest one-syllable words in the English language is "screeched. & strengths." |
| The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. |
| The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. |
| The worlds best known word is 'okay', the second most well-known word is 'Coca-Cola'. |
| The last words spoken from the moon were from Eugene Cernan, Commander of the Apollo 17 Mission on 11 December 1972. "As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind." |
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