English Language trivia

• No word in the English language rhymes with month.
• Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.
• The word set has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
• Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters und.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in -dous : tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
• The only other word with the same number of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
• There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, therein : the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
• No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
• Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• To testify was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
• The combination ough can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
• The verb cleave is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."