Gadsby: Fifty thousand words without an ‘e’
There are very, very few words in the English language where vowels aren't used. And 'e' is the most commonly used...
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The Washington connection
It was on this day, in the year 1877, that the American daily, The Washington Post, was first published. It is the...
Go: A sentence short and sweet
'Go' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. It is an imperative sentence that is basically used as...
All the vowels in alphabetical order
Abstemious means ‘sparse use’ or ‘moderate intake of food and drink’; facetious means being ‘flippant’. Apart from their interesting meanings,...
Atoll: The only English loanword from the Maldives
The island country Maldives, one of the most geographically dispersed countries, is a chain of twenty-six atolls spread around 90,000 sq km....
The meaning of ‘dinosaur’
The name dinosaur is derived from two Greek words: deinos meaning ‘fearfully great’ and sauros meaning ‘lizard’. It was coined...
