Facts

TYPEWRITER is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.

The words racecar, kayak, level, and Navy Van are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left and these are called palindromes. The longest palindromes in the dictionary however are the words 'Malayalam', 'rotavator', 'redivider'.

"Almost" is the longest word in alphabetical order.

The word avocado comes from the Spanish word, aguacate, which in turn is derived from the Aztec word ahuacatl, meaning testicle.

Vanilla derives its name from the Latin word for vagina.

Gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to "exercise naked".