15th Sept 2011 Strange Facts Of Coincidences About Letteres & Words

Did You Know These Facts About Letters & words?

• Letters 'a', 'B, 'c' and 'd' do not appear if you spell any of the numbers between 1 and 99
  (Funnily enough, letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)
• In addition, letters 'a', 'B and 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
  (Strange, but true, letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)
• Neither letter 'B nor 'c' appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
  (Letter 'B comes for the first time in Billion)
• Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English counting.
• The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
• The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are palindromes. They read the same whether you read them left to right or right to left.
• 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.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
• "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

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