Fun Facts about Writing & Letters

Fun Facts about Writing & Letters:

1.   The record for the longest letter was established in 1952, during the Korean War. A lady in Brooklyn, New York, wrote to her boyfriend, a private in the U.S. Army, serving in Korea. Instead of using regular writing paper, this ingenious lady used the narrow tape that is found on adding machines, 3,200 feet of it! The letter took her one month to write.

2.   A hand-written note from a sitting president is worth at least $7,000.

3.   A typical pencil can draw a line 35 miles long or write about 45,000 words.

4.   Numerous scripts existed before the actual alphabet existed; Hieroglyphics, Archaic Scripts, Aramaic square,

5.   11% of the people in the world are left-handed

6.   The longest one syllable word is screeched

7.   The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters

8.   No word in the English language rhymes with month

9.   Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind between 1926 and 1929. In her early drafts, the main character was named "Pansy O'Hara" and the O'Hara plantation we know as Tara was called "Fountenoy Hall."

10. What word can you take the first letter of, put it as the last letter, and make it the past tense of the original word? Answer: Eat (ate)