The Most Interesting and Unusual Facts
Facetious and abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the correct order.
"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.
"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
"Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist.
"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Duff" is the decaying organic matter found on a forest floor.
"Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.
"Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.
"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
"Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.
"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
"Kemo Sabe", meaning an all knowing one, is actually a mispronunciation by Native American of the Spanish phrase, Quien lo Sabe, meaning one who knows."
The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.
"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
"Mad About You" star Paul Reiser plays the piano on the show's theme song.
"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.
"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the Devil and he shall come". It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That's why when you're talking about someone and they show up people say "Speak of the Devil."
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
"Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.
"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
"Teh" means "cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay").
"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
Some resignation styles in India
Well by now some wise crack somewhere has already thought of this and so there is already a site that occupies the niche area of teaching people how to resign in style. The only issue is that it deals with the west where people are a little more dignified when they leave or are they?
Anyways I don't want to dwell on the west but talk about some of my experiences with resigning in India. I have never had the good fortune for resigning a number of times. I think I did it once and was very decent with my employers. Here is how I categorize them, however please note they are not according to any order, so don't have any ideas.
a) Gayab - in hindi means disappear. These are the kind who pick up offer letters come work with you for sometime and one day - GAYAB. No information, nothing from them. I did have the rare instance of hearing that one such person had called the office and asked for his pending salary after a month.
b) Template Resignation - There are some who just cannot frame their resignation letter. Just like their resume, it is a template from somewhere. So they even forget to change customisable parts like names of places in the letter and so on.
c) Prompted by Daddy - Some letters are written in language that would have made an english teacher in the British Raj times a very happy man. So parents are nowadays even helping their children write their resignation letters just like their homework in school.
d) The Angry Man - This person experiences lots of animosity before leaving and so chooses to vent it on everyone including the door mat when he leaves the office. Reasons for anger could be many but the entire resignation episode is very stressful for these individuals. Long emails are sent to people who he has hated in the organisation just before he stomps out.
e) Mr. Slimy - This smiling assassin exits very gracefully doing everything right including mentioning the name of the company he is going to. He even mentions the pay he is getting there, which is of course 3 times more than what he is getting here. You are fine with everything only to be rudely shocked to see him at the next client pitch sitting across you as the client or walking in as part of your competitors team.
f) Backpacker - This guy is totally fed up of working and feels burnt out. He just wants to get out of everything and use his savings to travel around the world as a backpacker and make up for lost time. He hopes to come back after a year rejuvenated and refreshed for a new job challenge.
g) The Sick Parent - This individual does not have the guts to resign so uses one of his parents as a scapegoat. Phones office early in the morning and informs office manager that one of his parents is very sick and so he cannot come it. That is the last you hear of this person.
h) The Forger - This individual picks up a letterhead from the office and cleverly puts his own experience certificate down, even signs it himself.
i) The Wingless one - I was lucky to read a letter written by one individual to his propective employer about his need to fly and how his wings were being restrained in this office environment.
j) The Tomorrow Guy - This person resigns and wants to leave tomorrow. Period.
h) Resignation from Home - This person resigns from home via email and also copies the email to all the clients.
So the reason why I am posting this up is to make people understand that joining and leaving a company is part of life. No one expects one to stay forever, but resignation should be done gracefully. It is as simple as giving a letter, discuss your reasons for leaving, serve your notice period and leave with friends in your old office. If you have had a bad experience in the company, you still owe that company a graceful exit, cause they gave you a job which you were glad when you wanted one.
The sudden ours has to change as it is giving us a real bad name in the west. This is quite dangerous for our future if we do not change now.