- 'Lollipop' is the longest word typed With your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
- No word in the English language rhymes with Month, orange, silver or purple.
- 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'MT '. (Are you doubting this?)
- The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?) - The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right Or right to left (palindromes).
(Yep, I knew you were going to 'do' this one.) - There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
(You're not possibly doubting this, are you ?) - There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
(Yes, admit it, you are going to say, A E I O U) - TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
(All you typists are going to test this out) - 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.
- 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
- The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
- 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 only 4 words in the English language which end in "duos": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- The shortest word in the English language with all its letters in alphabetical order is the word "almost"
- 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 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 languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.
- "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
- "Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
- "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
- The most common letters in English are R S T L N E.
- "Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Interesting and Funny Facts of English Language
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