Amazing facts in English language

he only word in English dictionary that sums up exactly 100 is “attitude”.

? The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet.

? The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

? The only other word in the English with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneomonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.

? “Go”. Is the shortest complete sentence in English language.

? The longest one syllable word in the English language is “screeched”.

? A dot over the letter “i” is called a TITTLE.

? The word “Set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

? No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

? On reversing the words they spell the same: “Malayalam”, “Liril” and “Madam”.

? There is a seven – letter word in the English language that contains 10 words without rearranging any of its letters, “therein” – the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

? “Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

? “Facetious” & “Abstemious” contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does “Arsenious”(meaning Containing arsenic).

? "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Really interesting!!!

A dot over the letter “i” is called a TITTLE.

No language has more synonyms than English.

The most common letters in English are R S T L N E.

"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order.

"One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

Widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower).

There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein,

herein.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "duos": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously & facetiously.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

The word "honcho" comes from a Japanese word meaning "squad leader" and first came into usage in the English language during the American occupation of Japan following World War II.

The shortest word in the English language with all its letters in alphabetical order is the word "almost."

The longest one syllable word in he English language is "screeched".

The letter most in use in the English language is "E" and the letter "Q" is least used.

Out of all the eight letter words in the English language, only one has only one vowel in it: "strength"

Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."

Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.

Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

“There is nothing so pathetic as a bore who claims attention - and gets it”

According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American."

Widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower).

Victor Hugo's Les Miserable contains one of the longest sentences in the French language 823 words without a period.

There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu.

There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.

There are only two sequences of four consecutive letters that can be found in the English language: "rstu" and "mnop." Examples of each are understudy and gynophobia.

There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "duos": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously & facetiously.

There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

The word "honcho" comes from a Japanese word meaning "squad leader" and first came into usage in the English language during the American occupation of Japan following World War II.

The shortest word in the English language with all its letters in alphabetical order is the word "almost."

The Philippines has more than 1,000 regional dialects and two official languages.

The only MLB team to have both its city's name and its team name in a foreign language is the San Diego Padres.

The longest word in the Finnish language, that isn't a compound word, is 'epaejaerjestelmaellistyttaemaettoemyydellaensaekaeaen'. In English it means 'even with their lack of ability to disorganize'.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

The longest one syllable word in he English language is "screeched".

The letter most in use in the English language is "E" and the letter "Q" is least used.

The computer programming language ADA was named in honor of Augusta Ada King. The U.S. Defense Department named the language after the Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Lord Byron because she helped finance and program what is thought to be the first computer, the “analytical engine” designed by Charles Babbage.

The Chinese language does not require punctuation.

The "huddle" in football was formed due a deaf football player who used sign language to communicate and his team didn't want the opposition to see the signals he used and in turn huddled around him.

South Africa used to have two official languages, now it has eleven.

Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say 'many things' and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -in many places -refers to '40 days,' they meant many days.

Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.

Rudyard Kipling was fired as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. His dismissal letter was reported to have said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language. This isn't a kindergarten for amateur writers."

Out of all the eight letter words in the English language, only one has only one vowel in it: "strength"

Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."

On June 26th, 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco. (The text of the charter was in five languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)

Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.

Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

Interesting Facts About English Language | Amazing Facts About English

1- Maximum number of definitions than any other word in the English language is exists for ‘SET’.

2- More English words start with the letter “s” than with any other letter.

3- Aftereffects, desegregated, desegregates, reverberated, reverberates, and stewardesses are the six longest word that is typed with only the left hand (considering standard QWERTY keypad).

4- A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a “pangram”, e.g. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards.

5- The “QWERTY keyboard” gains its name from the fact that its first 6 letter keys are Q, W, E, R, T and Y. On early typewriters the keys were arranged in such a way as to minimize the clashing of the mechanical rods that carried the letters.

6- “Underground” is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters “und.”

7- Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous are only four words in the English language which end with “-dous”:

8- “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis” is the longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The only other word with the same amount of letters is “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses”, its plural.

9- No English words rhyme fully with orange, silver, or month .However there are some partial rhymes or Para rhymes for these words, i.e. salver for silver and lozenge for orange.

10- The longest English word that without any vowel (A, E, I, O, U) is rhythms.

11- The verb “cleave” has two synonyms which are antonyms of each other, adhere and separate.

12- The dot over the letter “i” and the letter “j” is called a “superscript dot”.

50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

(or 50 Completely Useless Facts!)

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.

The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

The average person laughs 10 times a day!

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

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One of these amazing, but useless facts is false. Do you know which one?

Language & Literature

Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

E is the most frequently used letter in English.

Gadsby is the only novel (267 pages, 50,000 words) written in 1939 by Ernest Vincent Wright, without the use of letter "E".

Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter; by Mark Twain in 1876.

Uncopyrightable is the only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter.

The word Set has 464 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. The word Run runs a distant second, with 396.

The dot over the i or j is called a tittle.

The word queue is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the whole for its first letter.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Mandarin is most-spoken language in the world, spoken by 1.07 billion people, followed by English, spoken by 514 million.

Papua New Guinea have the greatest number of first languages. There are 869 separate languages - not dialects.

The world's first university was established in Taxila (comprised of cities Mohenjadaro and Harappa) Pakistan in 700 BC.

There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar; Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

The only three English words beginning with dw are; Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

There are currently 6,912 living languages, defined as languages that people speak today.

Letters 'a', ' b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99

(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters 'a', ' b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999

(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999

(Letter 'b' only comes for the first time in Billion)

Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting

do good

do harm

do well

do badly

do a favour

do business make an attempt

make a bed (usually this means "tidy the bedclothes" but it could mean "manufacture the furniture")

make a change/changes

make a complaint

make a decision

make a demand

make an effort

make an exception

make an excuse

make a loss

make love

make a mistake

make money

make a noise

make an offer

make peace

make a phone call

make a profit

make a suggestion

make war

What do you for a living?

2 Have you your homework already?

3 My husband the grocery shopping.

4 Amber badly on her geography exam.

5 The children a mess in the kitchen.

6 We are having guests tonight, so please your bed.

7 I only one mistake in my English test.

8 I have to ask you to me a favour.

9 Have you and your friend a decision yet?

10 Please excuse me while I a phonecall.

Electronic Abbreviations

AFAIK - As far as I know

BTW - By the way

IDK - I don't know

FYI - For yor information

K - Okay

LMAO - Laughing my ass off

LOL - Lots of love or laugh out loud

RTFM - Read the freaken manual

TTYL - Talk to you later

Jargon - Speech or writing having unusual or pretentious vocabulary, convoluted phrasing, and vague meaning

Idioms Old and New

Zip your lips

Wolf in sheeps clothing

Poop hits the fan

Blowing off steam

Jumping down my throat

I'm all ears

Good & Bad

Words that mean good:

Amazing

Awesome

Classic

Epic

Cool

Cool Beans

Killer

Stellar

Sweet

Words that mean bad:

Crap/Crappy

Lame

Sick

Sucks