The first word spoken on the moon was okay.
Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means the capital in the Korean language
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with
The;you are here arrow on maps is called an ideo locator
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
In English, four is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States
The word trivia comes from the Latin trivium which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People
would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard
Speak of the Devil is short for Speak of the Devil and he shall come. It was believed that if you spoke about the
Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say ;Speak
of the Devil;
The word Checkmate; in chess comes from the Persian phrase ;Shah Mat,; which means, ;the King is dead;
The sentence ;the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every letter in the English language
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village;
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand
The most common name in the world is Mohammed
The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means ;the act of
estimating as worthless;.
Mafia in Old Arabic means 'sanctuary.'
The longest word in the Old Testament is;Malhershalahashbaz.;
Karoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese.
The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?;
The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.;
Papaphobia is the fear of Popes
The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.
The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb.;
The three words in the English language with the letters ;uu; are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James
'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and
hazardous
The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish meaning the same thing
Pogonophobia: The fear of beards
In Chinese, the words crisis and opportunity are the same
The infinity character on the keyboard is called a ;lemniscate;
Good bye came from God bye which came from God be with you. So-long came from the Arabic salaam and the
Hebrew shalom
The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I ran the Zoo'
before Jets, Jet lag was called Boat lag
The word ;monosyllable; actually has five syllables in it
There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver and orange
The letter n ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms
46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish
You won’t find a 6 in Cameroon phone numbers--the native language has no sound for x.;
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is ;uncopyrightable.;
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down--
hence the expression to get fired.;
ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
BEAUTY PARLOR: A place where women curl up and dye.
CANNIBAL: Someone who is fed up with people.
CHICKENS: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
DUST: Mud with the juice squeezed out.
EGOTIST: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
GOSSIP: A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage.
HANDKERCHIEF: Cold Storage.
INFLATION: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
MYTH: A female moth.
MOSQUITO: An insect that makes you like flies better.
RAISIN: Grape with a sunburn.
SECRET: Something you tell to one person at a time.
SKELETON: A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
TOOTHACHE: The pain that drives you to extraction.
TOMORROW: One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.
YAWN: An honest opinion openly expressed.
WRINKLES: Something other people have. You have character lines.
If A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Is equal to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Then H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
L+O+V+E=12+15+22+5=54%
L+U+C+K = 12+21+3+11 = 47%
(None of them makes 100%)
Then what makes 100%
Is it Money? ..... No!!!!!
Leadership? ...... NO!!!!
Every problem has a solution, only if we perhaps
change our ;ATTITUDE;.
It is OUR ATTITUDE towards Life and Work that makes
OUR Life 100% Successful..
A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim. Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.
Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example...If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough
when going through the bough on a tree!
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine
in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.
We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is
neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally
insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have
noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
wiseguy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which
you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop?
