Five English Words That Are Utterly Unique by Dictionary.com Syzygy [siz-i-jee] Amazingly, the only English word with three Ys also happens to describe a rare astronomical event involving three heavenly bodies. A syzygy is the alignment of three celestial bodies in a straight line, commonly the Earth, the Sun and the Moon. Now, what is the only common English word to end in -mt? Dreamt [dremt] A poet would appreciate how this past tense of dream possesses such a special quality -- the only verb in regular English usage to end with -mt. We hear from people constantly who swear there must be another term ending in -mt. No one has ever actually offered a second example, however. Perhaps it exists in a dream. The next word is the exact opposite of -mt. Tmesis [tuh-mee-sis] The sole term in the English language to begin with tm- has an unusual meaning to match. Tmesis is the insertion of one or more words between the words that make up a compound phrase, as in "what-so-ever" inserted in the middle of "whatever." You'll never guess what's next: the only word that contains X, Y, and Z.

Hydroxyzine [hahy-drok-suh-zeen] Only one word in all of English has an X, Y, and Z in order. Hydroxyzine is also the only word on this list that you may have swallowed at some point. This medication developed in the 1950s can help calm you down, prevent sneezing, and impress you with unique linguistic qualities. Our final word is more of a riddle: What is the only English term pronounced the same if you remove four letters? 25 English Language Oddities - Listverse 25 English Language Oddities Listverse Staff December 3, 2007 Many cultures find that English might possibly be one of the most difficult languages to learn. Not, in fact, for its words, but for the fact that it has so many unusual and contradictory rules. Just looking over an English study book will tell you that so many odd ifs and buts apply to so many words that it is enough to drive one crazy. Here are 25 examples of the oddities in the English language. Oddities 21 – 25 25.

“Rhythms” is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u. 24. Excluding derivatives, there are only two words in English that end -shion and (though many words end in this sound). These are cushion and fashion. 23. “THEREIN” is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein. 22. There is only one common word in English that has five vowels in a row: queueing. 21. Soupspoons is the longest word that consists entirely of letters from the second half of alphabet. Oddities 16 – 20 20. “Almost” is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. 19. The longest uncommon word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops (a grass genus). 18. The longest common single-word palindromes are deified, racecar, repaper, reviver, and rotator. 17.

“One thousand” contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A. 16. “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English. Oddities 11 – 15 15. Cwm (pronounced “koom”, defined as a steep-walled hollow on a hillside) is a rare case of a word used in English in which w is the nucleus vowel, as is crwth (pronounced “krooth”, a type of stringed instrument). Despite their origins in Welsh, they are accepted English words. 14. “Asthma” and “isthmi” are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between. 13. The nine-word sequence I, in, sin, sing, sting, string, staring, starting (or starling), startling can be formed by successively adding one letter to the previous word. 12. “Underground” and “underfund” are the only words in the English language that begin and end with the letters “und.” 11.

“Stewardesses” is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand. Oddities 6 – 10 10. Antidisestablishmentarianism listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, was considered the longest English word for quite a long time, but today the medical term pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is usually considered to have the title, despite the fact that it was coined to provide an answer to the question ‘What is the longest English word?’. 9. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. 8. There are many words that feature all five regular vowels in alphabetical order, the commonest being abstemious, adventitious, facetious. 7. The superlatively long word honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) alternates consonants and vowels. 6. “Fickleheaded” and “fiddledeedee” are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet. Oddities 1 – 5 5. The two longest words with only one of the six vowels including y are the 15-letter defenselessness and respectlessness. 4.

“Forty” is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. “One” is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order. 3. Bookkeeper is the only word that has three consecutive doubled letters. 2. Despite the assertions of a well-known puzzle, modern English does not have three common words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are the only ones. 1. “Ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully. Words that end with "mt" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange 9,0603177136 closed as general reference by FumbleFingers , MetaEd ♦, tchrist ♦, Mahnax, kiamlaluno Sep 4 '12 at 0:08 This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center , please edit the question .

1 It probably depends how you define 'word', but dreamt + its derivatives (undreamt, and possibly daydreamt) are the only ones, unless you include the name Klimt. – Roaring Fish Aug 25 '12 at 12:06 1 No need for a down vote. How many honestly knew the fact before this question was posted? – Kris Aug 25 '12 at 12:30 Also posted here: funtrivia.com/askft/Question98856.html – mac389 Aug 25 '12 at 12:38 Although a little crass language here's the wiki answer: wiki.answers.com/Q/… – mac389 Aug 25 '12 at 12:39 If you're talking about pronunciation, I pronounce exempt, tempt, unkempt, and similar words with 'mt'. (And so do a lot of other people, since Merriam-Webster pronunciation gives the 'p' as optional.) – Peter Shor Aug 25 '12 at 14:29 Is dreamed the only English word ending with mt? - Find Answers Here!

Is dreamed the only English word ending with mt? We found this answers "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". The word "set" has more definitions than any ... > Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the ... - Read more "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt" ... than any other word in the English ... "Dreamt" is the only English word that ... - Read more Discussion about this question English Facts: 61 Facts about English ←FACTSlides→ of all written paragraphs in English feature the word "the." Bald Eagles are so named because "balde" is an Old English word meaning "white." Harry Potter books were translated from British to American English. The verb "unfriend" dates back to 1659. It existed even earlier as a noun, as far back as 1275. Understanding English actually hurts professional players of English scrabble. Some of the world's best Scrabble players are Thai and can't speak English. The words 'idiot,' 'imbecile,' and 'moron' were originally medical categories for intellectual disability. Dr.

Seuss was the first to publish the word "nerd." The phrase ‘Time Person of the Year' contains the first, second and third most commonly used nouns in English, in order. "Hello" didn't become a greeting until the telephone arrived. "Dreamt" and its derivatives are the only common English words that end in "mt." Only one word in all of English has an X, Y, and Z in order: "Hydroxyzine." The only English word with three "Y" is "syzygy," which happens to describe the align men t of 3 celestial bodies in a straight line. The word "OK" originated in 1839 when a newspaper used it as a funny abbreviation of "oll korrect." The English word "Callipygian" means having a beautiful ass. The sole term in English to begin with "tm" is "Tmesis," the insertion of words between a compound phrase, as in "what-so-ever" inserted in the middle of "whatever." Muscle comes from the Latin musculus, which means "little mouse," because a flexed muscle was thought to resemble a mouse.

"Police police Police police police police Police police." is a valid sentence, since "police" is both a noun and a verb. By the age of 20, a native English-speaking American knows 42,000 dictionary words. The chemical name for titin, the world's largest known protein, is 189,819 letters long. The word ambisinistrous is the opposite of ambidextrous; it means ‘no good with either hand'. ‘Bitch the pot' was 19th-century slang for ‘pour the tea'. "Rhinorrhea" is the medical condition otherwise known as a "runny nose." The word "rooster" was favored in the U.S. as a puritan alternative to "cock" after it had acquired the secondary sense "penis." Noah Webster learned 26 languages, including Anglo-Saxon and Sanskrit, in the process of writing "An American Dictionary of the English Language." Charles Boycott, an English land agent, was so hated by the community he became a verb.

"Goodbye" is a contraction of "God be with ye." The phrase 'crocodile tears' refers to a medieval belief that crocodiles shed tears of sadness when killing and consuming their prey. September is the ninth month and the only month with the same number of letters in its name in English as the number of the month. Horse -eating is called Hippophagy. 'Flabbergasted' was first recorded in a 1772 list of new words alongside 'bored'. The names of the English rivers Avon, Axe, Esk, Exe and Ouse all mean ‘river' or ‘ water ' in various ancient languages. The average active vocabulary of an adult English speaker is of around 20,000 words. The term "Hippie" is derived from the term "Hipster," which described jazz fans in the 1940's. Hipsters were known for pot smoking and sarcasm. The word "Britain" is derived from "Pretain" meaning "painted", originally because the Britons had tattoos. The term "sniper" comes from how hard it is to shoot the snipe bird. Jesus' name translated from Hebrew to English would be 'Joshua'.

We get the name 'Jesus' by translating the Hebrew name to Greek to Latin to English. Yawning and stretching at the same time is called "pandiculating." The 1989 article that proposed the acronym LOL also suggested using ‘H' to mean ‘Huh?' 25 English Language Oddities - English Vocabulary - English - The Free Dictionary Language Forums 25 English Language Oddities Posted: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 1:04:50 PM Rank: Advanced Member Posts: 3,923 Neurons: 15,842 1. “Rhythms” is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u. 2. Excluding derivatives, there are only two words in English that end -shion and (though many words end in this sound). These are cushion and fashion. 3. “THEREIN” is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein. 4.

There is only one common word in English that has five vowels in a row: queueing. 5. Soupspoons is the longest word that consists entirely of letters from the second half of alphabet. 6. “Almost” is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. 7. The longest uncommon word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops (a grass genus). 8. The longest common single-word palindromes are deified, racecar, repaper, reviver, and rotator. 9. “One thousand” contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A. 10. “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English. 11. Cwm (pronounced “koom”, defined as a steep-walled hollow on a hillside) is a rare case of a word used in English in which w is the nucleus vowel, as is crwth (pronounced “krooth”, a type of stringed instrument). Despite their origins in Welsh, they are accepted English words. 12.

“Asthma” and “isthmi” are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between. 13. The nine-word sequence I, in, sin, sing, sting, string, staring, starting (or starling), startling can be formed by successively adding one letter to the previous word. 14. “Underground” and “underfund” are the only words in the English language that begin and end with the letters “und.” 15. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand. 16. Antidisestablishmentarianism listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, was considered the longest English word for quite a long time, but today the medical term pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is usually considered to have the title, despite the fact that it was coined to provide an answer to the question ‘What is the longest English word?’. 17. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. 18. There are many words that feature all five regular vowels in alphabetical order, the commonest being abstemious, adventitious, facetious.

19. The superlatively long word honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) alternates consonants and vowels. 20. “Fickleheaded” and “fiddledeedee” are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet. 21. The two longest words with only one of the six vowels including y are the 15-letter defenselessness and respectlessness. 22. “Forty” is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. “One” is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order. 23. Bookkeeper is the only word that has three consecutive doubled letters. 24. Despite the assertions of a well-known puzzle, modern English does not have three common words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are the only ones. 25. “Ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.

I am carrying my heart~I am carrying my rhythm~I am carrying my prayers~But you can't kill my spirit~It's soaring and strong (Paula Cole's Me Lyrics)***We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We ARE spirtual beings having a human experience.(T.deChardin)***There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein) Location: Canada mailady wrote: All children learn to speak their language at the same age,so how can one be more difficult than another? I don't think that age has anything to do with the difficulty of a language. Besides, not every child will learn at the same rhythm, and therefore won't learn everything at the same age. Also, a lot of people learn new languages when they are no longer children. Christine: Thank you for this thread, it was entertaining and informative! I thought for a long time that sequoia was the only word with all vowels (except y and w).

I now have seen the light (though I'm not sure if it is true in French), but I am still very fond of that word nooblet: yes, a lot of people are idiots or sheep :( Neurons: 228 Location: United States Every language is equally "complicated," or better expressed, no language is more complex than another. Yes, children, learning their first language, learn at different speeds. But unless there is something wrong with the child's brain (particularly, with the language faculties), they will all pick up the language without any real effort. Learning a second language is difficult for many reasons, most of which I can only surmise at (brain not as malleable, perhaps not enough "memory" to thoroughly store two sets of sounds in a vocabulary, etc etc) But the first language acquisition is all automatic and without effort, from the viewpoint of the child. Location: United States pkeadle wrote: I've been attempting Slovak for years and years. Pretty darned complicated. My mother's folks spoke it but she could only understand it , She never learned to speak it.

The issue with learning most, if not all, Slavic languages, Russian and Czech included (Czech is mutually intelligible with Slovak), is the case system. In Czech there are seven cases, and different case endings for all combinations of singular/plural number and masculine/feminine/neuter gender, in nouns and adjectives. With pronouns you also have to keep track of person, 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Wh-words decline for tense as well, and I'm sure other word classes. Keeping track of all these endings in a second language is HARD, too hard. English is easy-ish to learn as a 2nd language because the morphology is so impoverished: I go, you go, she goes, we go, you all go, they go. Way to go, conjugation! Declension is almost entirely non-existant, and most plurals just take a quick -s. Case is only visible on pronouns (i.e., "I go" and "She goes," not "Me go" and "Her goes"; similarly, "John kissed her", not "John kissed she"). Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland Province, Finland kingfisher wrote: This is demonstrably not true.

English is actually one of the simplest languages. Although there are many curious things about it (as in the original post in this thread) all the grammatical rules you would need to communicate effectively can be written on the front and back of a 3" by 5" card in regular handwriting. Many other languages have much more complex rules. In general, modern languages that descended from the Altaic family are particularly complex (e.g., Finnish, Japanese). Neither Finnish nor Japanese are Altaic. Finnish is Uralic and Japanese is its own language family. For an English speaker both can be complex. In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Neurons: 57,340 Christine wrote: 1. “Rhythms” is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u. 2. Excluding derivatives, there are only two words in English that end -shion and (though many words end in this sound). These are cushion and fashion. 3.

“THEREIN” is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein. 4. There is only one common word in English that has five vowels in a row: queueing. 5. Soupspoons is the longest word that consists entirely of letters from the second half of alphabet. 6. “Almost” is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. 7. The longest uncommon word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops (a grass genus). 8. The longest common single-word palindromes are deified, racecar, repaper, reviver, and rotator. 9. “One thousand” contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A. 10. “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English. 11.

Cwm (pronounced “koom”, defined as a steep-walled hollow on a hillside) is a rare case of a word used in English in which w is the nucleus vowel, as is crwth (pronounced “krooth”, a type of stringed instrument). Despite their origins in Welsh, they are accepted English words. 12. “Asthma” and “isthmi” are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between. 13. The nine-word sequence I, in, sin, sing, sting, string, staring, starting (or starling), startling can be formed by successively adding one letter to the previous word. 14. “Underground” and “underfund” are the only words in the English language that begin and end with the letters “und.” 15. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand. 16.

Antidisestablishmentarianism listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, was considered the longest English word for quite a long time, but today the medical term pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is usually considered to have the title, despite the fact that it was coined to provide an answer to the question ‘What is the longest English word?’. 17. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. 18. There are many words that feature all five regular vowels in alphabetical order, the commonest being abstemious, adventitious, facetious. 19. The superlatively long word honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) alternates consonants and vowels. 20. “Fickleheaded” and “fiddledeedee” are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet. 21. The two longest words with only one of the six vowels including y are the 15-letter defenselessness and respectlessness. 22. “Forty” is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. “One” is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order. 23.

Bookkeeper is the only word that has three consecutive doubled letters. 24. Despite the assertions of a well-known puzzle, modern English does not have three common words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are the only ones. 25. “Ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully. Looks like you've been snowed in as well All good ideas arrive by chance- Max Ernst Word Trivia - Sally Bradley May 11, 2012 at 8:16 am # Nothing rhymes with Gagne, either. Thank you, SportsCenter commercials, for that bit of trivia. 🙂 JennyM May 11, 2012 at 10:58 am # This was fun! But, dude, like, what’s a typewriter? 😉 Anita Mae May 11, 2012 at 1:33 pm # I love this post! I look for palindromes in the serial numbers of paper money.

Numismatists refer to these bills as “radar notes”. I’m shaking my head that “humongous” wasn’t listed as one of the official “ous” words. It’s even listed on my Dictionary.com iphone app. When will the academic world wake up? (*wink) Reply Stuart September 7, 2015 at 5:52 pm # There are a number of words valid in North American English Scrabble that contain the pair “uu” and are not one of the derivative words of vacuum. The number increases in World English Scrabble. Four of these other words are muumuu, duumvir, continuum, and menstruum. Reply Stuart September 7, 2015 at 6:04 pm # There are over 50 such words that have a double-i [ii] in the word and are recognized in American English. In International English that total is near double. Some of the more common words (other than taxiing, skiing, and derivatives) are radii, alibiing, and shanghaiing.

Edmund A Buley May 22, 2012 at 2:59 am # After reading the Reply Stuart September 7, 2015 at 5:23 pm # unkempt is formed from combining the negative prefix un- with kempt. Kempt is the past participle of the now obsolete word kemb, a verb that meant ‘to comb’. The word is from Middle English kemben, from Old (Anglo-Saxon) English cemban “comb”. Carlos R. January 1, 2015 at 2:30 pm # The longest word in english that can be written using only consonants is: Rythms Reply Stuart September 7, 2015 at 5:03 pm # The longest word I know written with all consonant letters is the 7-letter interjection tsktsks. And, the y in rhythms is a vowel. It had been taught to school children that the vowels were A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y (and sometimes W).

With the rarity of words with W as a vowel (such as in the loanwords cwm and crwth), and primarily due to spelling reform, W has been generally ignored as a sometimes vowel letter. Y, in contrast, is used extensively as both a vowel and consonant. It is a consonantal letter, but not always. Gio June 3, 2015 at 7:55 am # About towns with vowels only, how about Oia on the lovely (and famous) greek island of Santorini? Reply Stuart September 7, 2015 at 4:36 pm # “Stewardesses” and “reverberated” are not the two longest words of the English-language that can be typed with only the left hand. “Sweaterdresses”, as a 14-letter word, is two letters longer. The word “hypolimnion” (the lower layer of water in a stratified lake) may not be a common word, but it is a word of the English language, and it is three letters longer than “lollipop”.

The claim that “uncopyrightable” as the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is false. The word “dermatoglyphics” (the study of the lines and ridges of skin markings, such as in fingerprints) is another 15 letter word that has no letter repeated. In English, adjectives are often used as nouns. In such use the adjective can be pluralized. At 16 letters, the word “uncopyrightables” has been noted in a few law review documents. There does not appear to be a perfect rhyme in the English language for month, but orange, silver, and purple each have at least one perfect rhyme. For orange there is the botanical term sporange (a variant of sporangium – a spore sac). Silver has chilver, a dialectal word for a one-year old female lamb, or its mutton. And, also dialectal, but from Scottish-English, are curple (a horse’s rump) and hirple (to cease walking or to walk as if lame) for purple. It is incorrect to say “only” without further qualifications. “Dreamt” is not the only English word ending in the letters “mt”.

There are also the derivatives redreamt, undreamt, daydreamt, and outdreamt. For words ending in “dous”, besides the given four, there are amadous, amphipodous, apodous, arthropodous, biohazardous, cephalopodous, chilopodous, cynopodous, decapodous, frondous, gasteropodous, gastropodous, hybridous, iodous, isopodous, jeopardous, ligniperdous, molybdous, multifidous, myriapodous, nefandous, nodous, nonhazardous, octopodous, ostracodous, palladous, paludous, polypodous, pudendous, rhizopodous, rhodous, sauropodous, schizopodous, solipedous, splendidous, steganopodous, tetrapodous, ultrahazardous, unhazardous, untremendous, uropodous, vanadous, vodous, and voudous.

Besides “abstemious” and “facetious” being words where each of the five standard vowels are used once each in the word, there are more than the two given. “Abstentious”, “arsenious”, “caesious”, “parecious”, “halfseriously” (for which there is also the hyphenated “half-serious”), and the word derivatives “abstemiously” and “facetiously” also fit the criteria noted. Longer than the 10-letter word “typewriter”, the 11-letter “rupturewort” (a common old world herb) can also be formed from only letters on one row of a qwerty-keyboard. The name of Hawaiian city, ʻAiea, actually begins with the Hawaiian consonantal letter, the okina. Still, the suburban community’s name is spelled with only vowels in its Anglicized-spelling. But the claim that Aiea, Hawaii is the only city which is spelled completely with vowels is not accurate. Aue in Germany near the outlet of the river Schwarzwasser is also written with vowel letters. Not all cities are assigned Anglicized names, and are written in their native alphabet with only vowel letters.

Using Google Maps, one can locate the town Å in Tranøy, Norway, another town Å in Lofoten, Norway, the town Ea in the Basque area of Spain, and the municipality Ii in the Northern Ostrobothnia region Finland. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” may be the best known known pangram (a word, phrase or sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once), but other pangrams do exist (perhaps the reason the word pangram exists). “Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck.” is a pangram that uses each letter but once. The uncommon words can be paraphrased as “A grass-plains wryneck climbs upon a male yak-cattle hybrid that had been donated under Islamic law.” "Words" related terms, short phrases and links Words Used Some may count as inherently funny words and are used for humorous effect. Contrafibularity was one of several nonce words used by the fictional Edmund Blackadder to confuse the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, whom he despised. Sounds Occasionally, words for things are created from representations of the sounds these objects make.

A folk usage of portmanteau refers to a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words (e.g. (Web site) This is due to the formation of compound words and also to the spelling devices for distinguishing the many vowel sounds in the Dutch language. A portmanteau word is a word which fuses two function words. (Web site) This neologism is a portmanteau word coined from the words clavier (in English, keyboard) and bavardage (in English, chat). Eye rhyme is a similarity in spelling between words that are pronounced differently and hence, not an auditory rhyme. There are many words in English which are pronounced differently based on context . V is pronounced [f] in words of Germanic origin (e.g. There are some cases where stress is the only difference between words. In the most common form of rhyme, words rhyme if they end in identically or nearly-identically sounding syllables, and match in stress. General lexicology deals with the universal features of the words of languages . (Web site) The list of words starting with three vowels is rather longer, but most are obscure.

Special lexicology on the other hand studies the words with reference to one particular language. (Web site) According to Bhartrhari, the analysis of a sentence into words and of words into stem and suffix is made for the practical purpose and has no real value. (Web site) Stressed Pronounce a few selected words, and ask students to underline stressed syllables. (Web site) However, no antepenultimately stressed words were correctly stressed, and only 16.9% of the words with final stress were predicted. (Web site) Gallicisms are loanwords, words or phrases borrowed from French. Also includes a list of common words and phrases with pronunciation. Tokens can consist of either single words or phrases. The word originates from the Greek words ------ (syn), meaning "co-" or "together", and ---------- (t--xis), meaning "sequence, order, or arrangement". (Web site) Consequently, most such dictionaries transliterate the Greek words into Roman letters. Etymologies in English dictionaries often identify Greek words as ancestors of words used in English. (Web site) English Words English words of more than two syllables are likely to come from French, often with modified terminations.

The lexicon recognizes over five hundred thousand English words and phrases and defines hundreds of lexical characteristics for each word. Dreamt and its derivatives are the only common English words that end in mt. Enter an English word, it returns a list of words which rhyme. (Web site) These are “minimal pairs,” when pairs of words differ. So the different[p]--s in the above words are the allophones of the same phoneme[p]. We think of acorpusasaran- domlygenerated sequence of words that is viewed as a sequence of word pairs. One of the shortest such words, at eight letters, is Muroidea, a superfamily of rodents. Subscription-based site for vocabulary development , showcasing the Latin and Greek roots of English words. Also covers vocabulary, homonyms, easily confused words, etc. Nonce Words Verbification is sometimes used to create nonce words or joking words. Nonce words frequently arise through the combination of an existing word with a familiar prefix or suffix, in order to meet a particular need (or as a joke). (Web site) Using the nonce words from Face (2002), I performed a study identical to Waltermire's.

(Web site) In derivational synthesis, morphemes of different types ( nouns, verbs, affixes, etc.) are joined to create new words. (Web site) They are : morphemes , words , variable word-groups & phraseological units . Function Words Syntactic pleonasm occurs when the grammar of a language makes certain function words optional. (Web site) As we have seen in the above study, acronyms and truncated words are the most popular abbreviations in source code systems. (Web site) Generally, initials of short function words (and, or, of, to) are not included in abbreviations , except to make such acronyms pronounceable. (Web site) Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. For reference, a good number of these borrowed words are of the neuter gender. Other words that may have specific technical meanings are occasionally used as kadigans as well. (Web site) A distinction is made between well-established English borrowings into French, and other words and structures regarded as incorrect. Puns, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names are common examples of word play .

Frequency Psycholinguistic experimentation has shown that high frequency words are accessed more rapidly than low frequency words (e.g. (Web site) The average frequency difference between the high and low frequency irregular test items in each pair was 60.8 words per million. (Web site) Learn English: English Language Oddities English Language Oddities 1. “Rhythms” is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u. 2. Excluding derivatives, there are only two words in English that end -shion and (though many words end in this sound). These are cushion and fashion. 3. “THEREIN” is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein. 4. There is only one common word in English that has five vowels in a row: queueing. 5. Soupspoons is the longest word that consists entirely of letters from the second half of alphabet. 6. “Almost” is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. 7.

The longest uncommon word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops (a grass genus). 8. The longest common single-word palindromes are deified, racecar, repaper, reviver, and rotator. 9. “One thousand” contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A. 10. “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English. 11. Cwm (pronounced “koom”, defined as a steep-walled hollow on a hillside) is a rare case of a word used in English in which w is the nucleus vowel, as is crwth (pronounced “krooth”, a type of stringed instrument). Despite their origins in Welsh, they are accepted English words. 12. “Asthma” and “isthmi” are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between. 13. The nine-word sequence I, in, sin, sing, sting, string, staring, starting (or starling), startling can be formed by successively adding one letter to the previous word. 14.

“Stewardesses” is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand. 15. Antidisestablishmentarianism listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, was considered the longest English word for quite a long time, but today the medical term pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is usually considered to have the title, despite the fact that it was coined to provide an answer to the question ‘What is the longest English word?’. 16. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. 17. There are many words that feature all five regular vowels in alphabetical order, the commonest being abstemious, adventitious, facetious. 18. The superlatively long word honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) alternates consonants and vowels. 19. “Fickleheaded” and “fiddledeedee” are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet. 20. The two longest words with only one of the six vowels including y are the 15-letter defenselessness and respectlessness. 21. “Forty” is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order.

“One” is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order. 22. Bookkeeper is the only word that has three consecutive doubled letters. 23. Despite the assertions of a well-known puzzle, modern English does not have three common words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are the only ones. 24. “Ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully. 25. “Underground” and “underfund” are the only words in the English language that begin and end with the letters “und.” Posted by Babu Rao

Question: What is the only English word, and its derivatives, to end in ‘mt’?
Answer: Dreamt