• Did you know that the word "bee" in Spelling Bee came from an old English word "bene" which is now "boon". It means "blessing". The word has historically been used to describe group activities, and that's how we have the term "Spelling Bee".
  • Did you know that the longest English word with no repeating letters is "uncopyrightable"?
  • The word "typewriter" can be spelled using only the top row of letters on a keyboard!
  • Did you know that "queueing" is the only word in the English language with five consecutive vowels?
  • The word "bookkeeper" is the only word in the English language with three consecutive double letters.
  • Here's another intriguing fact about the word "queue." It's the only word in the English language that still sounds the same even when you remove the last four letters.
  • Did you know that the word "almost" is the longest commonly used English word with all its letters in alphabetical order?
  • Did you know that “eunoia” consists of all five vowels?
  • Another spelling fact: “Strengths” is the longest word with only one vowel.
  • Did you know that some words are spelled the same way forwards and backwards, like "radar" or "level".
  • "Necessary" is a commonly misspelled word. A popular way to remember the spelling is "one collar and two sleeves.
  • Words that end in “I” in English come from foreign languages. Examples are samurai, linguini and chai.
  • You can spell out all the numbers from 1 to 99 without using the letter A.
  • Words in English also do not end in the letter j. When you hear the /j/ sound at the end of an English word, it will end in -ge or in -dge.
  • If you spell out ‘TWELVE’ in Scrabble tiles, their values add up to 12. No other number equals its value in Scrabble tiles.
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Won’t expect less of an ex-English teacher!
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Haha, you understand.
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The longest palindrome I'm aware of is "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog."
one collar and two sleeves
That's a life saver.
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That's crazy
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