Amazing word facts

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is"screeched."
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters"mt".
Almonds are members of the peach family.
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
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 theletters "und."
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 tothe Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Donald Duck's middle name isFauntleroy.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
To "testify" was based on menin 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 intoa slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
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."
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason