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Nanaimo English Tutor, AJ Mittendorf.
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Trivia

1. The longest English word that can be written on a single row of keys on a computer keyboard is the word, "Typewriter."




2. The longest English word from which you can successively remove a single letter at a time until only a single letter remains, but which yields another word after the removal of each letter, is "STARTLING".

STARTLING      (Remove the "L")

STARTING        (Remove the second "T")

STARING           (Remove the "A")

STRING              (Remove the "R")

STING                 (Remove the first "T")

SING                   (Remove the "G")

SIN                      (Remove the "S")

IN                         (Remove the "N")

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3. Here's a complete sentence that uses a single word four times in a row but is grammatically correct:

"The faith he had had had had no impact on those around him."




4. Here's a complete sentence that uses a single word five times in a row but remains grammatically correct:

(In reference to a billboard that reads, "Tom and     Jerry")

"The spaces between "Tom" and "and" and "and" and "Jerry are uneven."



5. The word "therein" contains eleven words (including "therein" itself) spelled with consecutive letters:
The
I
He
There
In
Her
Ere
Therein
Rein
Herein
There



6. It is no secret that the letters o-u-g-h has eight different pronunciations in English. If you look on the "Fun Frustrations" page of this site, you can find a poem called "O-U-G-H" by Charles Battell Loomis that takes a humourous look at this phenomenon. But to make life easier for everyone, I'm placing a single sentence below; it contains all of the eight pronunciations of O-U-G-H:

A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

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