Fun Fridays – May 11, 2012

Word Trivia

“Stewardesses” and “reverberated” are the two longest (and commonly used) words (12 letters each) that can be typed with only the left hand.

“lollipop” is the longest word typed with your right hand.

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

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.” (a e i o u)

Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii.

[Editor’s Note:  I did in fact live in Aiea for many years during a six year stint in Hawaii on the island of Oahu.  My wife and I had a terrible time getting mail.  All of our friends and family could not believe we lived in a place with only four vowels and no consonents – A I E A.  Pronounced “EYE -A- Uh”  The most common misspelling was ALEA.  They just randomly put an L in for the Aiea.  Curious folks my wonder where Aiea is located.  It is between Honolulu and Pearl Ridge.  We lived in a ten story apartment complex across the street from Aiea Chop Suey and Speedy’s Supermarket.  Aloha Stadium (home to the Aloha Bowl, the Hula Bowl, and The Pro Bowl and to the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warrior all played there.  From our lanai (balcony) we would look out over all of Pearl Harbor.  The Arizona Memorial was right in front of us.]