Olla! m I would like to share some trivia about the words that we usually and occasionally use… I had fun reading this article.

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• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead"

• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

• The English word with the most consonants in a row is latchstring.

• The only word that consists of two letters, each used three times is the word "deeded."

• The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It is a a pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

• “Stewardesses” and “reverberated” are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using on the left hand.

• The longest word that can be typed using on the right hand is “lollipop.“

• No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

• AM and PM stand for "Ante-Meridian" and "Post-Meridian," respectively, and A.D. actually stands for "Anno Domini" rather than "After Death."

• 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.

• "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

• The oldest word in the English language is "town"

source: http://www.jayp.net/trivia/lang01.htm

m please don't hesitate to add in any additional informations.. :]