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karaoke
  • Karoke means “empty orchestra” in Japanese

scrabble
  • Mr Butts originally named Scrabble “Criss Cross Words.”
  • The Malaysian version has the highest number of single letters – 18 As
  • In the Polish version, Z is worth only one point
  • The highest recorded single word score in English is 392 for CAZIQUES, meaning “native chiefs of West Indian aborigines”
  • London hosted the first world championship in 1991
  • The recently released Welsh version has left out the letters X, Q and Z.

Mardi Gras
  • Mardi Gras means “Fat Tuesday.”

muppet
  • In Bangladesh after the 9/11, 2001 terrorist attack, Anti-American protestors carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert. This was because while searching for OBL pictures online, the instigators did not bother to check it prior to printing
  • The name “Muppet” is a combination of the word “marionette” and “puppet.”

spermology
  • [f. Gk spermologos, gathering seeds; also fig. picking up news, gossiping]
  • obs.  a gatherer of seeds; fig., gossiper (a collector of trivia, according to Trivial Pursuitâ„¢)

words, origin
  • The word avocado comes from the Spanish word, aguacate, which in turn is derived from the Aztec word ahuacatl, meaning testicle
  • Vanilla derives its name from the Latin word for vagina
  • Gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to “exercise naked.”

words
  • The words racecar, kayak, level and Navy Van are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left, and these are called palindromes. The longest palindromes in the dictionary however are the words ‘Malayalam”rotavator’ ‘redivider’. Now check these out. ‘A man a plan a canal panama’. ‘Ten animals i slam in a net’thanx seraph, mashkur, hannah b, marky and jay, jelly baby king
  • “Almost” is the longest word in alphabetical order

women
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men
  • Women can hear better than men
  • On average, women say 7000 words a day. Men manage only a quiet 2000 words
  • Among many women inventions, include: the windshield wiper, the dishwasher, the Maritime signal flares, and the kevlar armor vest!

tongue twisters
  • The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.(honestly, who think these things up?)

typewriter
  • TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard


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