| 你知道吗？有趣的英语知识 |
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| 2007-12-05 14:38 文章来源：corner.youth.cn |
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
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."
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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