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SPOONERISME
A spoonerism is a play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis). It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844

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PANGRAM
A pangram (Greek: pan gramma, "every letter"), or holoalphabetic sentence, is a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. Pangrams are used, like lorem ipsum, to display typefaces and test equipment. For example, the pangram The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog was developed by Western Union to test Telex/TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability.

* Forsaking monastic tradition, twelve jovial friars gave up their vocation for a questionable existence on the flying trapeze. (106 letters)
* No kidding

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* Bookkeeping is the only word with 3 double letters in a row.
* Subbookkeeper is the only English word with four pairs of double letters in a row.
* Interchangeability contains the words three, eight, nine, ten, thirteen, thirty, thirty-nine, eighty, eighty-nine, ninety and ninety-eight.
* The only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the States if the United States is Q
* All of the continents end with the same letter they start with.
* Indivisibility is the only word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times.
* Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous are the only English words ending in -dous.
* Asthma begins with a vowel, ends with a vowel, and has no other vowels in between.
* Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
* Dreamt is the only common word in English ending in -mt.
* The second longest word in the English language is antidisestablishmentarianism.
* The only English word beginning with 憈m

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PALINDROME
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or series that is the same backwards that it is forwards.

* abba
* aha
* aibohphobia
* alula
* anna
* ava
* bib
* bub
* cammac
* civic
* dad
* deed
* deified
* deleveled
* detartrated
* devoved
* dewed
* did
* dud
* eke
* elle
* ere
* esssse
* eve
* evitative
* ewe
* eye
* gag
* gig
* Glenelg
* hannah
* havivah
* huh
* kayak
* kinnikinnik
* kook
* lemel
* level
* lil
* maam
* madam
* malayalam
* minim
* mom
* mum
* murdrum
* noon
* nun
* ogopogo
* otto
* pap
* peep
* peeweep
* pep
* pip
* pop
* poop
* pup
* racecar
* radar
* redder

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ONOMATOPOEIA
Onomatopoeia (occasionally spelled onomatop渋a) is a word, or occasionally, a grouping of words, that imitates the sound it is describing, and thus suggests its source object, such as 揵ang