Tag Archives: literature

quitos tittle

By quitos on May 13, 2010.

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The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

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quitos misspell

By quitos on May 9, 2010.

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315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

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quitos moons

By quitos on April 24, 2010.

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In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than one hundred years before either moon was discovered.

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quitos sherlock

By quitos on April 22, 2010.

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Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.

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quitos muggles

By quitos on April 3, 2010.

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“Muggles” was pothead slang decades before Harry Potter came along.

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yorch tight

By yorch on December 30, 2009.

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In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase “Goodnight, sleep tight”.

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yorch novel

By yorch on December 2, 2009.

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Tom Sawyer was the first novel ever written on a typewriter.

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quitos record

By quitos on October 21, 2009.

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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

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quitos ballpens

By quitos on October 15, 2009.

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On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

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quitos stewardesses

By quitos on September 29, 2009.

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“Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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quitos typewriter

By quitos on September 22, 2009.

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TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

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vicke typing

By vicke on August 16, 2009.

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The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

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vale titanic

By vale on May 27, 2009.

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In 1898, Morgan Robertson wrote a novel titled Futility, about a luxurious boat that sinks in its inaugural journey after crashing into an iceberg in the Atlantic. The boat was the biggest in the world, with a triple hull supposedly unsinkable. Its passengers were mainly aristocrats and there weren’t enough lifeboats for all. The ship’s name was Titan. The Titanic sank 14 years after the book was published.

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quitos abc

By quitos on May 21, 2009.

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The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.

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