English Language is funny – a ‘fat chance’ and a ‘slim chance’ are
the same thing.”
we do have noses that run and feet that smell ...
we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the
parkway
The only months of the year that have anagrams are: MARCH and MAY
Anagram for: March ----------> Charm
Anagram for: May ----------> Yam
Monday is the only day of the week that has an anagram
Anagram for: Monday ----------> Dynamo
The only planets that have anagrams are Earth and Mars
Anagrams for: Earth ----------> Heart, Hater
Anagrams for: Mars ----------> Arms, Rams
Are is a one syllable word that can be made into a three syllable word by adding just one letter to make area. Similarly, came can become cameo, gape can become agape, and lien can become alien. Adding a letter to the middle of smile becomes the three syllable word simile. Similarly, whine can become wahine.
Wahine: a Polynesian woman, a female surfer
MAINE is the only name of a state of the United States consisting of only one syllable.
SMILES is supposed to be the longest word in the dictionary because “there's a mile between the two S's.”
The two silent letters in CORPS are pronounced when a silent E is added to form CORPSE
DREAMT is the only common word in English ending in -MT.
Others are the obscure adreamt, redreamt, undreamt, or daydreamt.
"EWE", "YEW", "YOU" can be confused
EWE and YOU are pronounced exactly the same, yet share no letters in common.
1
YEW
any of several evergreen, coniferous trees and shrubs of the genera Taxus and Torreya, constituting the family Taxaceae, of the Old World, North America, and Japan, having needlelike or scalelike foliage and seeds enclosed in a fleshy aril.
YEW unstressed
2
EWE is a female sheep, especially when fully mature
3
EWE
a member of a people of Togo and Ghana, in western Africa.
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