Facts in "Words" Category
#3367 - Words Fact     0  "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. |
| #3368 - Words Fact -1 "Kemo Sabe" reportedly means "soggy shrub" in Navajo. |
| #3369 - Words Fact -1 "Lobster shift" is a colloquial term for the night shift of a newspaper staff. |
| #3370 - Words Fact 1 "Mrs." is the abbreviation of Mistress, which originally was a title and form of address for a married woman. It was always capitalized. |
| #3371 - Words Fact 6 "To whinge" is Australian slang for "to complain constantly." |
| #3372 - Words Fact -1 "Turnip" used to be a U.S. slang expression for a pocket watch. |
| #3373 - Words Fact 1 "Romanji" is a system of writing Japanese using the Latin alphabet. |
| #3374 - Words Fact -4 "Toboggan" is derived from the Algonquin language and loosely meant "instrument with which to drag a cord." |
| #3375 - Words Fact -1 "Yakka" means "hard work" in Australian slang. |
| #3376 - Words Fact 5 Graffito is the little-used singular of the much used plural word graffiti. |
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