Interesting Facts

[Windsor]

Some may not know these interesting facts.

1. All continents begin and ends with the same letter.

2. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.

3. There are only four common words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. There's also annelidous, which you probably won't need - ever.

4. 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.

5. The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

6) Noah (the fictional builder of the fictional Ark ) had children with his own daughters !

 

[red amoeba]

6) Noah (the fictional builder of the fictional Ark ) had children with his own daughters !

err...its fictional so, anything goes right?

 

[Windsor]

Here are more unusual facts:

6. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.

7. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.

8. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the King is dead".

9. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

10. The longest place-name still in use is:-'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturi
pukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu' it is the Maori name of a hill in New Zealand.

11. The three words in the English language with the letters "uu" are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.

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

 

[Forvendet]

The most common surname in Singapore is Tan. How they're going to sort out inbreeding or run out of choice of spouse to marry, I have no idea.

 

[Agoraphobic]

The most common surname in Singapore is Tan. How they're going to sort out inbreeding or run out of choice of spouse to marry, I have no idea.

Easy - breed with FTs.

Cheers!

 

[ssrrvv11]

chow ah neh replying to chup cheng. good pals huh. lol

............... wtf

courtesy please in the mod section.