The title of the post tells you everything you need to know. I love wordplay, making puns, finding palindromes, and using words that are rarely heard anymore. Word play can be fun and here are a few fun facts for your files.

• Do you know how to tell the difference between morons, imbeciles, and Idiots? Morons – IQ 51 to 70, Imbeciles – IQ 26 to 50, and Idiots – IQ 0-25.

• The words tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous are the only four words in the modern English language that end in “dous”.

• There are no words that rhyme with orange.

• If “off” means to deactivate, what happens when the alarm goes off?

• Dr. Seuss is credited with the first use of the word “nerd” in print, from his 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo.

• The word “Mountweazels” concerns spurious entries or fake words used to catch copyright cheaters.

• The term “Tattarrattat” was coined by James Joyce in his novel Ulysses for a knock on the door. It also happens to be the longest palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary.

• “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep is sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

• These six words have no accepted singular forms. Pajamas, Shorts, Jeans, Tights, Trousers, and Glasses.

• “Floccinaucinihilipilification” is the longest real word (29 letters) in the Oxford English Dictionary.

I’ll keep searching for more of these and as I find them, I’ll post them. Language can be fun in so many ways. How cool is it to use the language properly to insult some clueless person who insists on irritating you and them not realizing what you meant.

ONE OF LIFE’S GUILTY PLEASURES