The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

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

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

The longest word in the English language that can be typed using only the right hand is "lollipop".

The longest word in the English language that can be typed using only the left hand is "stewardesses".

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

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

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

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

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

"Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.

The longest English word consisting entirely of consonants (and not including "y" as a vowel) is the word "crwth" which is from the fourteenth century and means crowd.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/twx communications)

The highest scoring word in the English language game of Scrabble is 'Quartzy.' This will score 164 points if played across a red triple-word square with the Z on a light blue double-letter square. It will score 162 points if played across two pink double word squares with the Q and the Y on those squares. 'Bezique' and Cazique' are next with a possible 161 points. All three words score an extra 50 points for having seven letters and therefore emptying the letter rack in one go.