Monday, August 07, 2006

Borrowed From a Friend

You Think You Know Everything?

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

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

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los
Angeles de Porciuncula"

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

2 comments:

Jamie said...

thats really cool about the rhyming words...who gave u this stuff?? just being nosey...

Michele said...

It was in Pastor Barry's daily devotional that I have told you about. I obtained his permission to use it. He said he doesn't know where it came from.