Facts in "Words" Category
#3317 - Words Fact     -2  The word for "name" in Japanese is "na-ma-e," in Mongolian "nameg." |
| #3318 - Words Fact -1 "Polish" is the only word in the English language that when capitalized is changed from a noun or a verb to a nationality. |
| #3319 - Words Fact 1 Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic." |
| #3320 - Words Fact 0 Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortened to Sheriff. |
| #3321 - Words Fact 0 The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck. |
| #3322 - Words Fact 1 The difference between a "millennium" and a "chiliad"? None. Both words mean "a period of one thousand years", the former from Latin, the later from Greek. |
| #3323 - Words Fact 1 The stress in Hungarian words always falls on the first syllable. |
| #3324 - Words Fact 0 The word for "dog" in the Australian aboriginal language Mbabaran happens to be "dog." |
| #3325 - Words Fact 3 The side of a hammer is a cheek. |
| #3326 - Words Fact -2 The initials for morning and evening are based on latin words—ante meridiem and post meridiem. "Ante," of course means "before" and "post" means "after." "Meridiem" means "noon." |
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