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An oft-used word which means the same in English and Spanish.

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Ans - Bye

This interesting insight was provided by one of our Spanish  translation experts who dropped in during the tea break.

“Getting fired” - worse than what you know.

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The expression “get fired” has been inspired from the practices of our long-forgotten ancestors who used to burn down the houses of unwanted members of their clan to get rid of them without killing. Thank heavens, the houses of Tomedes language translation experts are safe ;-)

Think of all the English words with the letter pair “uu” in them.

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Ans. The tea break shifted to our work station as the Tomedes language translation team furiously hit their keyboards to find the answer from the world wide web. We could only get three - continuum, vacuum and residuum.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

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What’s that you say - well one of our language translation experts from UK say that it is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and it means “St Mary’s church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave”.

Name the longest one syllable word in the English language?

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Ans. Screeched.

This bit of enlightenment was introduced to the Tomedes language translation team by our friendly CEO, Mr. Ofer Tirosh and boy did he set all of us know-it-alls biting our nails trying to guess the answer.

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The answer can be found by unscrambling the following set of letters-

 d e t m s e o

P.S. 1 - Every member of the Tomedes language translation team who could not solve the above had to put in an extra hour at work. 

P.S. 2- There’s a clue in P.S. 1

What is the longest word that can be typed using one row of a typewriter?

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Ans. Typewriter.

Are you a scrabble champ? Then check out the row - “QWERTYUIOP”. If you come out with a longer word, do let me know.  This is the Tomedes language translation team’s way of unwinding during tea breaks :-)