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Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, August 4, 2000, 15:23
>> No word in the English language rhymes with month, >> orange, silver or purple.>
Once in a letter (unacknowledged) to William Safire, I suggested that if anyone could come up with a rhyme for _orange_ it would be Stephen Sondheim.... I offered 2 subjects for his attention: a musical involving William, Duke of Orange; or one about poor Frederick Delius "amid the alien groves"-- he was packed off to Florida to manage an orange grove. I suppose his father thought that would knock all that music nonsense out of him. It didn't work.
>> In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch >> is 10:10. > >Because on a watch with hands, 10:10 look vaguely smile-like, and when >they began selling digital watches, they simply kept the tradition.>
As I recall, back when ALL watches had hands, they were shown at 8:20, apocryphally the time when Linconln was shot.......
>> "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the >> left hand. > >Exstewardesses?>
I do believe a hyphen is required.