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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Posted Date: 23 Jul 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: Education
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Posted By: Uttam Agrawal Member Level: Gold
Rating:  Points: 2
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? The 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.
? “I am”. 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.
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