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Mitchell Symons

There Are Tittles in This Title

Did you know that 'Almost' is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order? Or that 'Stewardesses' is the longest word you can type solely with your left hand? Or that fireflies aren't flies, they're beetles?

From information about words and their uses, useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, to bizarre test answers and much, much more, There Are Tittles in This Title is bursting with truly oddball facts about words and language — and will have you hooked from the very first page.
170 trykte sider
Copyrightindehaver
Michael O'Mara Books
Oprindeligt udgivet
2014
Udgivelsesår
2014
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  • Аслан Бахтияровhar citeretfor 2 år siden
    scurryfunge which means a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbour and the time she knocks on the door
  • Ljubica Božićhar citeretfor 4 år siden
    Words that are rarely used in the singular:

    trivia (singular: trivium)

    minutiae (minutia)

    paparazzi (paparazzo)

    grafitti (grafitto)

    assizes (assize)

    scampi (scampo)

    auspices (auspice)

    scruples (scruple)

    timpani (timpano)

    measles (measle)

    Words that are rarely used in the positive:

    (in)advertent

    (in)corrigible

    (im)maculate

    (im)placable

    (in)clement

    (in)effable

    (dis)consolate

    (un)wieldy

    (in)delible

    (in)nocuous

    (un)furl

    (im)pervious

    (in)sipid

    (un)expurgated

    (un)speakable

    (im)peccable

    (un)kempt

    (in)evitable
  • Ljubica Božićhar citeretfor 4 år siden
    Bonnet: the cap on a fire hydrant

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