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

>> 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.