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• Facetious, abstemious, abstentious, arsenious, and arteriosus are the only five words in the English language that contain the vowels a, e, i, o, and u in their proper order.
  
• The word "four" has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
  
• The word monsoon is derived from the Arabic word mausim, meaning "season." It was first used by Arab sailors to describe the seasonal winds that blow across the Arabian Sea.
  
• The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a "tittle." Tittle is Latin for something very small.
  
• The only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
  
• Mother In the vast majority of the world's languages, the word for "mother" begins with the letter M.
  
• The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable - it has three.
  
• The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was "J," which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was "U."