Thursday, June 16, 2005

Trivia


"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."

Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions

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

The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.

The side of a hammer is a cheek.

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language - 823 words without a period

Sameer Bhat

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