Typing Trivia:
1) "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
2) The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
3) "Dreamt" and "undreamt" are the only English words that end in the letters "mt."
4) "The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
5) "Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
6) The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
7) The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
8) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
9) The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
10) There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (Not sure)
11) No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. (Not sure)
12) There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
13) Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters. The proper term for upper case letters is "majuscule" and for lower case it's "minuscule".
14) The question mark came from a monk habit of writing the Latin word for question, quo, at the end of sentences. Over time, the letters were written vertically to save space and morphed into the ? we write today. Similarly, the exclamation point came from the Latin word "Lo", meaning something important that should be heeded.
Believe it or not, you can read what’s typed below:
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmornatt.
Well, spelling is important for an editor. As has been shown in the above example mind perceives spelling while reading differently and many a times while editing editor tends to overlook mistakes like “form/from” which affects the quality of the transcript. Make sure you keep an eye towards spelling as well…
1 comment:
That was quite a great chunk of knowledge..
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