1. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be created by using only the top row of the keyboard.
2. The most difficult language to learn is Basque, spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France.
3. The most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'.
4. In Chinese script, there are more than 40,000 characters.
5. A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
6. In 1939 Erneset Vincent Wright published a novel called Gadsby, containing 50,110 words, none of which contained the letter 'e'.
7. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
8. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
9. The word "karate" means "empty hand."
10. Eskimos have more than twenty words to describe snow.
11. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
12. "Aegilops" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
13. The word SILENT contains exactly the same letters as the word LISTEN.
14. "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
15. The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a tittle. Tittle is Latin for something very small.
16. The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
17. Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.
18. The word 'karate" means "empty hand."
19. The word "live" spelled backward is "evil."