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is the word that has all the vowels.
does not contain a single letter of the Latin word from which it is derived: dies (day).
only word in the English language with four vowels in a row is "queuing."
The shortest word with all five vowels in alphabetical order is aerious (7 letters), meaning "airy."
the red-purple dye and color, was created shortly after the battle of Magenta in northern Italy. The conflict was so bloody that French chemists synthesized the color shortly after the battle and named it after the city because it resembled the color of blood.
didn't exist until around 1300. Until then, the largest number word was "myriad," which was Greek for 10,000.
is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
in the dictionary with only one vowel is "STRENGTHS."
is the only letter that does not appear in the names of any state of the Unites States.
in the Oxford dictionary is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis." It has 45 letters.
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