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

Jonathan Chang wrote:
> The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
What's "average person" have to do with that?  It has to do with the
arrangement of letters on the keyboard, and the frequency of each
letter's use in the English language.

> No word in the English language rhymes with month,
> orange, silver or purple.
Depends on dialect.  For some, "doorhinge" is a rhyme with "orange" (not
in my dialect, tho).

> There are only four words in the English language
> which end in "dous"
> tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Non-hazardous?  :-)  (Okay, I know, that's cheating)

> Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra
> Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
I'd read "... los Ángeles del Río Porciuncula"

> 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.

> "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the
> left hand.
Exstewardesses?

> Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and
> "bump."
Actually, Shakespeare merely introduced a dialectal word "bump" into
mainstream English.

> The continents names all end with the same letter with
> which they start.
What about North America and South America?  Or Eurasia, for that
matter?

> "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the
> English language.
Am I?

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