Interesting and Funny Facts of English Language

  • '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.

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