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Page 43 - Language Facts

The only letter in the alphabet with more than one syllable is 'W.'

W has three syllables ("duh-bull-you"). Therefore, when you begin a web url with "www," you are actually saying nine syllables when "world wide web" would only be three! So much for abbreviations, eh?

The words regardless and irregardless mean the same thing.

However, regardless is the more commonly used of the two because the prefix "ir" and suffix "less" are two negative elements that together cause the meaning of irregardless to be unclear.

Irregardless is primarily used in speech and not in written prose. Regardless is generally the more accepted word.
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The longest singular words you can type while alternating hands for each letter contain no more than 13 letters.

These include: antiendowment, antisudorific, autotoxicosis, and dismantlement.

There are even more words that have 12 letters: antiantibody, authenticity, autoantibody, autotoxicity, chalcidiform, suspensorial, leucocytosis, leucocytotic, proamendment.
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There is a minimum number of people needed to classify a disturbance as a "riot." It has to be at least 3 people.

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Webster's Dictionary contained a definition of a non-existent word for five years.

In 1931, an abbreviations card containing an abbreviation for density marked "D or d, cont" was accidentally mixed in with the definitions cards. This confused the editors, who mistakenly printed the notation as the word "dord," which was classified as a synonym for density.
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