Info: Interesting and Unusual Facts

• Facetious and abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the correct order.

• "Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

• "Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.

• "Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.

• "Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

• "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

• "Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.

• "One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

• "Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

• "Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

• "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

• "THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.

• "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."