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	quotes[0] = "Each year, the Writing Center's writing consultants work with more than 7500 students in one-to-one conferences. ";
	quotes[1] = "There are only four words in the English language which end in &quot;-dous&quot;: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. ";
	quotes[2] = "&quot;Dreamt&quot; is the only English word that ends in the letters &quot;mt.&quot;";
	quotes[3] = "The longest one-syllable words in the English language are &quot;Screeched, Scratched, Scrounged, Scrunched, Splotched, Squinched, and Squelched.&quot; ";
	quotes[4] = "If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to go until a thousand to find the letter &quot;A.&quot;";
	quotes[5] = "The word &quot;hangnail&quot; comes from the Middle English: ang-(painful)+ nail. Nothing to do with &quot;hanging&quot;. ";
	quotes[6] = "The oldest word in the English language is &quot;town.&quot;";
	quotes[7] = "The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have one syllable, it has three.";
	quotes[8] = "The dot above the letter &quot;i&quot; is called a tittle.";
	quotes[9] = "The word &quot;Lethologica&quot; describes the state of not remembering the word you want to say.";
	quotes[10] = "The sentence &quot;the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog&quot; uses every letter in the English language. "; 
	quotes[11] = "Of all the words in the English language, the word &quot;set&quot; has the most definitions.";
	quotes[12] = "&quot;Kemo Sabe&quot; means &quot;soggy shrub&quot; in Navajo.";
	quotes[13] = "The combination &quot;ough&quot; can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all:&quot;A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.&quot; "; 
	quotes[14] = "The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable."; 
	quotes[15] = "The word &quot;Checkmate&quot; in chess comes from the Persian phrase &quot;Shah Mat,&quot; which means, &quot;the king is dead&quot;."; 
	quotes[16] = "Pinocchio is Italian for &quot;pine head.&quot;";
	quotes[17] = "The phrase &quot;rule of thumb&quot; is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. ";
	quotes[18] = "&quot;Stewardesses&quot; is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand."; 
	quotes[19] = "The phrase &quot;sleep tight&quot; derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep. "; 
	quotes[20] = "No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple."; 
	quotes[21] = "Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression &quot;to get fired.&quot; "; 
	quotes[22] = "'I am.' is the shortest complete, non-imperative, sentence in the English language.";
	quotes[23] = "The word 'samba' means 'to rub navels together.'";

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