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AMAZING FACTS
"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch
"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
Posted by Raj at 4:17 PM::
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9 Comments:
Those facts are fascination especially the one that 1 to 999 has no a, but housand has...brilliant to come up with all these.
Hi I realy liked reading through your blog,Thanks for sharing.Wish you well.great posting
He!He!He!
Who actually thinks up these facts? I learned some stuff though...
that was rather interesting - thanks Raj. I would be interesting to know though who has the time to think of all these things!
Ya, these things are so simple and so common, still we never realized, thats why they are amazing. Somebody has really done a good job to come out with such facts.
Hi Raj. I think you have too much time on your hands! Nice post and congratulations on your Independence Day. Incidentally you may be interested to read the comments on my post at this address:
http://bazzablog-uk.blogspot.com/2006/08/farningham-kent-england.html
Nice facts. I actually like reading such stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Again, cool stuff, Raj. Thanks. As for palindromes, someone put out a book of them and amazingly some palindromes were whole paragrpahs or pages long! (Can't recall the book's tile but the web will tell you, eh?) Two very famous palindromes are: "Able was I ere I saw Elba," which refers to the exile of Napoleon; and "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama."
these are so common words, yet never noticed such fun!
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