A place with many Fun Facts
The original message in which the smiley was invented had been lost until September 10, 2002 the original post made by Scott Fahlman on CMU CS general board was retrieved by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the spice vax (cmu-750x). Here is Scott’s original post: 19-Sep-82
The word “gift” has two different meanings in the Swedish language: “marriage” and “poison”. Both meanings are pronounced the same way.
There are three ten-letter words with one syllable: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. Some other one syllable words with nine letters are screeched, scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths.
Spanish word for “wife” (esposa) also means handcuffs (esposas). Both terms share the same etymological root. They come from the Latin term spondere (to promise).
A tittle or superscript dot is a small distinguishing mark, such as a diacritic or the dot on a lowercase i or j. The tittle is an integral part of the glyph of i and j, but diacritic dots can appear over other letters in various languages.
The longest word could be “subdermatoglyphic” – it’s not in any dictionaries but it’s in dermatology journals. Dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly, and uncopyrightable, each fifteen letters long, are the longest English words in which no letter appears more than once. Fourteen letter words with this property are ambidextrously, benzhydroxamic, hydromagnetics, hydropneumatic, pseudomythical,
There are only 3 words in the English language that contain 3 sets of consecutive double letters. They are: bookkeeper bookkeeping sweettooth There are others that contain 3 sets of double letters but not consecutively. Some are: assessee keelless Mississippi committee keenness addressee
The longest English word typeable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. Similar words with 10 letters include: pepperwort, perpetuity, proprietor, requietory, repertoire, pourriture and typewriter. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a
According to research at Cambridge University, it doesn’t matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem.
