Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”
There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination “uu.” Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum.
The shortest French word with all five vowels is “oiseau” meaning bird.
The word “modem” is a contraction of the words “modulate, demodulate.”
The word “queueing” is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.
The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint.
The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are “screeched” and “strengths.”
