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Queue is the only word in the English language which is pronounced the same if all but one letter are removed.
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What about Bee?

Or Gee?

or Pee, or Pea?

I?

jay?

oh?

tea?

(I assumed you meant all but the first letter are removed, because if it were all but any one, then it would be really easy)
 
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Famine
Bugger. Missed out the 5 letter part... :D

Although technically "aitch" (the phonetic spelling of "H") can have the first four letters removed andstill sound the same...
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I've had my fun fact of the week for a little while now, so I think it's time for a change. It WAS, for reference.

7: "Rhaphanidosis" is the act of inserting a radish up an adulterer's bottom with a mallet.

Curiously exact, but it stems from an ancient Greek punishment for adultery. A radish - which at that time was quite a large vegetable, around the size of a parsnip - was inserted into the male adulterer's bottom and driven home with a wooden mallet. I am unaware of the female adulterer's punishment, but it's likely she was killed.
 
Top 10 Words of 2004 -

1. blog
2. incumbent
3. electoral
4. insurgent
5. hurricane
6. cicada
7. peloton
8. partisan
9. sovereignty
10. defenestration

I saw this somewhere else and two of the words were red state and blue state, as well as your fired.

Kudos to one and all for submitting a veritable cornucopia of favorite words for us to grapple with during this survey. Some of your entries were real ripsnorters, others felicitous and bittersweet, all of them indubitably mesmerizing! From the thousands of submissions we received, here are the ten words entered the most often:

2004 Top Ten Favorite Words
View Other Favorite Words
Source - http://www.m-w.com/info/favorite.htm


fam·ine ([font=verdana, sans-serif] P [/font]) Pronunciation Key (f
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  1. A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage.
  2. A drastic shortage; a dearth.
  3. Severe hunger; starvation.
  4. Archaic. Extreme appetite.
Some More -
  • » Thomas Jefferson's father was one of the surveyors who laid out the Virginia/North Carolina border.
  • » President Ulysses S. Grant was once arrested during his term of office. He was convicted of exceeding the Washington speed limit on his horse and was fined $20.
  • » John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the same day friend as his political rival and friend Thomas Jefferson. His last words are reported to have been, “Thomas Jefferson still survives.”
  • » Though his wife Martha had four children by a previous marriage, George Washington left no direct descendant. He never sired a child to continue his family line.
  • » President William H. Taft was once offered a contract to pitch for the Cincinnati Reds.
  • » John Adams was central to the Revolution and to the creation of the Declaration of Independence and the government under the Constitution.
  • » President William Howard Taft was a seventh cousin twice removed of Richard M. Nixon, and was a distant relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  • » John Adams was the first president to have a son become president. His wife, Abigail Smith, was very influential and known as an engaging conversationalist and a wonderful writer of letters.
  • » John Adams was the first president to live in the White House – then called the Executive Mansion.
  • » Three U.S. presidents have been the sons of clergymen: Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Woodrow Wilson.
  • » Three Whigs have served as president of the United States: William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore.
  • » President William Howard Taft, weighing 325 pounds at the time, had a special bathtub installed at the White House which was big enough to hold four men.
  • » To enforce integration, Dwight Eisenhower ordered the U.S. National Guard to escort students into the Little Rock High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • » President William McKinley always wore a red carnation in his lapel for good luck.
  • » Two towns in Vermont claim to be President Chester A. Arthur's birthplace, but recent research supports his opponents' charges that he was born in Canada, and therefore, was not eligible to be president under the U.S. Constitution.
  • » President William McKinley had a pet parrot that he named “Washington Post.”
 
Aaah, defenestration. The posh way of saying, "Pick a window. You're leaving."
 
DQuaN
Meh

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Is that true?



"No."

(although it may be the shortest complete clause)
 
What Animal can withstand the highest G-forces?

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The click beetle! Yes, the mighty click beetle which snaps its legs to make it bounce or move around can withstand like a 100G's or some ****.
The common jumping flea however, is the fastest accelerating life on earth discovered. If a flea were the size of a rocket ship it could jump to the moon in about a minute.
 
100G? Wimp.

"In the winter of 1976-77 (David) Purley commissioned designer Mike Pilbeam to build a Lec F1 car and with the help of Mike Earle this was ready to race in 1977. Purley qualified for several races but in practice at Silverstone suffered a stuck throttle and crashed with incredible violence. Purley was subjected to the highest G-forces ever survived by a human being - 179.8G - when the car went from 108mph to zero in just over half a meter.

His life was saved by rescue crews at the scene of the crash but it took many months for him to recover from multiple fractures to his legs, pelvis and ribs. He did eventually have a second Lec F1 car built and did one or two events. In 1979 he raced in the British F1 series with a Shadow but then he quit racing and turned instead to running the family business and aerobatics. He had been a pilot since the early 1960s but while flying off the south coast of England in the summer of 1985 he crashed into the sea in his Pitts Special stunt plane."
 
PublicSecrecy
Last edited by PublicSecrecy on: ur mom!
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Is that supposed to be funny? Why go through all the trouble of putting it in "ur" signature? (Which, at 8 lines, is now too long)
 
ceiling_fan
Fa·cetious·ly: The only word will all vowels (including Y) in alphabetical order.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=facetiously&r=67
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The OED contains "Aeriously", which also does, and is shorter and "Harieously", which also also does. And is also also shorter.

"Ultrarevolutionaries" has each vowel exactly twice. The shortest such word is "Cuboideonaviculare" and the longest is "Ussolzewiechinogammarus" (a small crustacean).
 
he probably has nothing better to do. Or has to know as part of his job. Or he's one of those people who walks around looking for words with all the vowels in it.

anyway:

The human (female) egg is nearly visible to the human eye at 1/20 the size of a grain of sand.
 
Yeah, I guess I am just weird because I like random facts.

I wouldn't make a book though. I think that would be too much of a pain. I wouldn't publish it in any form either.
 
I wouldn't like take time out of my day to look for random facts because I have better things to do, but I think that random facts are interesting when I come across them.
 

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