Thursday, December 31, 2009

AskOxford: What is the name for a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet?

AskOxford: What is the name for a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet?: "Apart from 'angry' and 'hungry', what other common English word ends in '-gry'?
Are there any English words containing the same letter three times in a row?
Are there any words in the English language that use all five vowels with no intervening consonants?
Are there any words that only exist in the plural form?
Are there any words that rhyme with orange?
Are there words that contain the letter 'q' without a 'u' following it?
Can a DNA string be considered the longest word in English?
Does 'bimonthly' mean 'twice a month' or 'every two months'?
Female cattle are cows, male cattle are bulls. But what is the word for an individual of arbitrary sex here?
How do you describe a person who does not eat meat, but eats fish?"

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