"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch. "Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil." It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. "Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke. "Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. "Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully. "Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. "One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A. "Mad About You" star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show's theme song. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails. "Kemo Sabe", meaning an all knowing one, is actually a mispronunciation by Native American of the Spanish phrase, Quien lo Sabe, meaning one who knows."
"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969. "Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio. "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order. "Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used. "Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between. "Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet. "Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". "Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist. "Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome. "Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command. "Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. Facetious and abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the correct order.
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