Not Being Facetious!

I can see by that puzzled look on your faces that you know what time it is. Time for the new puzzler!

I was reading the other day and I came across an interesting word. Now, this is no joke, I'm not being facetious. The word is "facetious".

So there is something interesting about that word. And I can't tell you what it is. But if you write it down, you will notice that there is something interesting about it.

To the best of my knowledge, there is only one other word in the English language that has the same properties.

So this is again, a two-part puzzler column. Part 1: What is it that's peculiar, unique, or interesting about the word facetious? And Part B: What other English word has the same peculiarity?

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Remember last week's puzzler?

Miss Pronunciation

From time to time, I like to do a puzzle that's brief. I mean, you know, not one of these verbose puzzles that require lengthy explanations and dissertations. Sometimes I like to just keep it simple.

Now this one is a two-part puzzler and it has to do with the English language.

Part 1. I was listening to the radio the other day, and as luck would have it, I was listening to the BBC. And they keep mispronouncing this word and I thought I'd set the record straight.

There's the stuff that beer cans and the like are made out of in this country, which the English consistently call al-u-mini-um. Yeah. And of course, as everyone knows, we call them tin cans. Or we call them beer cans or aluminum cans.

So Why do they call them al-u-mini-um cans? Or why do they refer to that metal as al-u-mini-um?

So the first part has to do with the that material, why do they mispronounce it?

And now for the highly technical, automotive part of the puzzle, part B:

What does STP stand for? We're betting there are three people on the whole planet that know this!