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Word of the day low-hanging fruit
by Christine Lovatt
"Going after George Bush may be like snagging the low-hanging fruit given his political woes of recent months..." Low-hanging fruit refers to the easiest task or the most readily achievable goal. Often used in advertising to refer to the most appropriate market. However, the low-hanging fruit is not always the ripest - hmm.
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Word Fact
by The Quizzard
The word with the most occurrences of the letter K is KNICKERBOCKERS
A SPUD was a digging tool, useful for unearthing potatoes and the name eventually meant the potato itself
WIDOW is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower)
The longest word with no repeated letters is UNCOPYRIGHTABLE
SCREECHED and STRENGTHS are the longest one-syllable words in English
In electronics, a JIFFY is between 1/50 and 1/60 of a second
UNCOMPLIMENTARY and SUBCONTINENTAL contain all five vowels in reverse order
The word KARATE means 'empty hand'
RADIO came from the discovery of radium which led to such words as radio-active before it was first used in 1903 to describe a radio-receiver
Caught RED-HANDED probably has its origins in being caught with blood on your hands