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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Onomatopoeic words are words that sound the same as they are written ,like cuckoo

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

Rotavator is the longest palendromic word

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Please leave me alone, are the words i hear most.

So fairly interesting.

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

"Please leave me alone, are the words i hear most.

So fairly interesting."

It's that followed by "I'm calling the police "?

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

Why does monosyllabic have so many?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Schoolmaster is an anagram of 'the classroom'!

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

emordnilap is a palindrome

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Please leave me alone, are the words i hear most.

So fairly interesting.

It's that followed by "I'm calling the police "?"

Err how did you know that?

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

Abstemiously is one of the longest words with all the vowels used once and in alphabetical order

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By *hyandtwistedCouple over a year ago

loughborough

plethora is a word that means a lot to me

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Deeded is the only word that is made using only two letters each used three times

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"plethora is a word that means a lot to me"

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By *ny1localMan over a year ago

READING

Dyslexia is f..king difficult to spell when you have dyslexia

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

Rhythm is a dancer ... and also a word with no vowels

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By *hyandtwistedCouple over a year ago

loughborough

"Dyslexia is f..king difficult to spell when you have dyslexia "

where as diarrhoea just flows

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

W.W.W.("double you double you double you dot") takes longer to say than 'world wide web' !

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman over a year ago

On a mooch

Stressed spelt backwards is desserts

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"eleven plus two" is an anagram of "twelve plus one".

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By *ickyRoosterMan over a year ago

Uppendown

"Onomatopoeic words are words that sound the same as they are written ,like cuckoo"

Onomatopoeia is a misheard lyric of the song Annie (I'm not your daddy) by Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

A misheard lyric is also known as a mondegreen.

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By *partharmonyCouple over a year ago

Ruislip

The band name Lynyrd Skynyrd (as in Sweet Home Alabama) has 13 letters and no vowels.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman over a year ago

On a mooch

SWIMS is still SWIMS when turned upside down

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Woss

Jonathan has changed his last name to woss after his brother had a cocaine sex session with men

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

The word for dressed in all black is Atrate !

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The word ‘alphabet’ comes from the first two letter of the Greek alphabet - ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’.

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By *inn_the_humanMan over a year ago

Edinburgh

The word "lisp" is impossible to say correctly if you have one

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By *allySlinkyWoman over a year ago

Leeds

Bookkeeper is the only English word with three consecutive pairs of double letters

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

To bumfiddle is to spoil a piece of paper(voting slip?)by scribbling/drawing on it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

A Fuk is an old English word for a boats sail

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Listen contains the same letters as silent !

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

A Dik Dik is a foot tall antelope

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By *ed-monkeyCouple over a year ago

Hailsham

Subdermatoglyphic is the longest word with no letters repeated

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Queueing is the only word in the English language with 5 consecutive vowels in .

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

A dreamhole is an opening in a wall to let in sunlight or air,or in a church to amplify church bells

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Petrichor is the name of that earthy ozone smell you get after a shower of rain during a warm summer.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

""eleven plus two" is an anagram of "twelve plus one"."

nah

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman over a year ago

On a mooch

A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet..... “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Feedback is the shortest word containing the letters a b c d e f

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Move each letter of the word Yes back 10 places in the alphabet and it will spell'oui' the French for yes !

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Tease -hole:

An opening in a glassmakers furnace.

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