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Sunday 5 February 2012

Interesting facts about "English"


  • "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is the only sentence which contains all the English alphabets.
  • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in English language according to Oxford English Dictionary.
  • "I am" is the shortest complete sentence.
  • By using the word "therein" ten different words can be formed without rearranging any of its letters. "Therein"  - the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
  • "Facetious" and "Abstemious" are the only English words which contains all the vowels in correct order.
  • "Uncopyrightable" is the only longest word in English which is not having any repeating letter.
  • "Rhythm" is the longest word without any vowel.
  • Only two words ends with -gry and they are "Angry" and "Hungry".
  • "Underground" is the only word which starts and ends with "Und".
  • "Bookkeeper" is the only English word which has three consecutive repeated letters.
  • More English words begin with letter "S" than any other word.
  • "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" is the word for fear of long words.
  • English has the largest vocabulary in comparison to any other language.

3 comments:

  1. g8 amit.... keep it up... keep bringing such more facts like this... congrats.

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  2. Thank you ji...Thnk u so much!! i'll try ma best..

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