Interesting words and languages 1. The first word spoken on the moon was "okay". 2. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language. 3. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 4. There are only four common words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. There's also annelidous, which you probably won't need - ever (unless you're a biologist (see comments). 5. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator. 6. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. 7. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. 8. The symbol used in many URLs (Web addresses) is called a tilde. (~) 9. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. 10. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its...
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