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Old 04-24-2008, 05:07 PM   #26 (permalink)
Matilda
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The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Rulership by words is called logocracy.
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