Facts of the Day for Friday November 2nd, 2007:
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.
"Conservationalists" & "Conversationalists" (18 letters) are the longest non-scientific transposals (word formed from another by changing its letters).
"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.
How are those word based facts for ya?
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