Do You Know?

Do you know ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” phrase, normally used for testing font types, font sizes and text positioning, contains all alphaberts A-Z?

Do you know the origins of ‘a.m.’ and ‘p.m.’? These abbreviations represent the Latin phraes ante/post meridiem, which mean ‘before/after midday’.

Do you know what comes after once, twice, thrice? These three are the only words of their type, and no further terms in the series have ever existed.

Do you know data is singular or plural? Strictly speaking, data is the plural of datum, and should be used with a plural verb (like facts).