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Mitchell Symons

There Are Tittles in This Title

Did you know that 'Almost' is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order? Or that 'Stewardesses' is the longest word you can type solely with your left hand? Or that fireflies aren't flies, they're beetles?

From information about words and their uses, useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, to bizarre test answers and much, much more, There Are Tittles in This Title is bursting with truly oddball facts about words and language — and will have you hooked from the very first page.
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Michael O'Mara Books
Első kiadás
2014
Kiadás éve
2014
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Idézetek

  • Аслан Бахтияровidézett2 évvel ezelőtt
    scurryfunge which means a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbour and the time she knocks on the door
  • Ljubica Božićidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
    Words that are rarely used in the singular:

    trivia (singular: trivium)

    minutiae (minutia)

    paparazzi (paparazzo)

    grafitti (grafitto)

    assizes (assize)

    scampi (scampo)

    auspices (auspice)

    scruples (scruple)

    timpani (timpano)

    measles (measle)

    Words that are rarely used in the positive:

    (in)advertent

    (in)corrigible

    (im)maculate

    (im)placable

    (in)clement

    (in)effable

    (dis)consolate

    (un)wieldy

    (in)delible

    (in)nocuous

    (un)furl

    (im)pervious

    (in)sipid

    (un)expurgated

    (un)speakable

    (im)peccable

    (un)kempt

    (in)evitable
  • Ljubica Božićidézett5 évvel ezelőtt
    Bonnet: the cap on a fire hydrant

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