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facts about english language(lexical)

The longest English word: antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters)---means opposition to the separation of church and state floccinaucinihilipilification(29 letters)--meaning the estimation of something as worthless, is the longest non-technical word in the OED.  pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (45 letters)--a lung disease, appears to be a semi-serious concoction. Longest word without a vowel: symphysy. Longest word with at most 1 vowel: glycyphyllin, psychorhythm. Word with most vowels: counterrevolutionaries. Word with most consecutive vowels (5): cooeeing, miaoued, miaouing, queueing. Smallest word with all 5 vowels: eulogia, miaoued, sequoia. Longest word with only 3 distinct alphabets: seeresses. Longest word with only 4 distinct alphabets: senselessness. Longest word with no repeated letter: dermatoglyphics. Longest word with letters in alphabetical order: aegilops. Longest word with letters in reve

Getting a job at facebook!!

Interviewing for a technical job is hard, and so is being the interviewer. You want to get that engineering job at Facebook, and we want to hire the best people (you!). Knowing what to expect on both sides can go a long way toward making the process work better. Preparation is important. Hiring, here and across the industry, is like shooting a few protons into the very large space of your life experience, hoping to get enough information back to say that yes, this specimen is definitely made of elemental awesomium. We're trying to build a picture of your abilities as a professional and a colleague from a handful of data points. How we do it Every role is different and we are always tweaking things, so don't freak out if your experience is different from what's laid out here. Typically it will start with an email or a phone call from a recruiter. Perhaps they found you online, or you applied directly, or a friend recommended you.  We also have an intern program,

choosing a password for your gmail!!

Keep it secret, Keep it safe Choosing the right password is something that many people find difficult, there are so many things that require passwords these days that remembering them all can be a real problem. Perhaps because of this a lot of people choose their passwords very badly. The simple tips below are intended to assist you in choosing a good password. Basics Use at least eight characters, the more characters the better really, but most people will find anything more than about 15 characters difficult to remember. Use a random mixture of characters, upper and lower case, numbers, punctuation, spaces and symbols. Don't use a word found in a dictionary, English or foreign. Never use the same password twice. Things to avoid Don't just add a single digit or symbol before or after a word. e.g. "apple1" Don't double up a single word. e.g. "appleapple" Don't simply reverse a word. e.g. "elppa" Don't just remov

GOOGLE AND APPLE!!

Google is expected to pay Apple $US1 billion in 2014 to keep Google.com as the default search engine on iOS devices like the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, according to Morgan Stanley. The financial services firm came to the figure in a report titled “The Next Google is Google” on Friday after taking a closer look at how Google makes and spends money in the mobile space. Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt  bases the figure  on the fact  that Google and Apple - noted by many as “frenemies” - have a deal in place which sees Apple reap a certain amount of money per device sold with Google.com as the default search engine. Mr Devitt estimates the cost Google has been paying to Apple per device has been growing year-on-year and that so too has the number of iOS devices Apple has sold. Because of this, he estimates that Apple will in 2014 be raking in about $US1 billion from Google for the privilege of keeping Google.com as iOS's default search engine ahead of rivals Bing and Yaho