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13 يناير، 2005 الساعة 3:15 م #30881
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مشارك[ Some amazing information about English language ]
• ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.
• ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
• ‘Underground’ is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters ‘und.’
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning ‘containing arsenic.’
• Los Angeles’s full name is ‘El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula’ and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,’L.A.’
• The combination ‘ough’ can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: ‘A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.’
• The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
• The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is ‘screeched.’
• The longest place-name still in use
Traumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.
• The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis; The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
• The symbol on the ‘pound’ key (#) is called an octothorpe.
• The word ‘Checkmate’ in chess comes from the Persian phrase ‘Shah Mat,’ which means ‘the king is dead.’
• The word ‘set’ has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in’-dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• 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, ere, therein, herein.
14 يناير، 2005 الساعة 9:44 ص #504379شجون الهاجري
مشاركthats good !!!!!!!!!………….
21 يناير، 2005 الساعة 9:30 م #505497mobi
مشاركThank you for read
Best Regards9 فبراير، 2005 الساعة 8:17 م #509144طائر السنونوو
مشاركit is long but really nice
thanks for the subject10 فبراير، 2005 الساعة 8:29 ص #509220mobi
مشاركThank you for read
Best regards
10 فبراير، 2005 الساعة 5:20 م #5093539A56
مشاركThat is nice
but tell me in Arabic how many vocal sounds does a cat have -
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