Fun And Useless English Language Facts That Have Got Nothing To Do With Grammar

1. The word 'set' has the most definitions among all the English language words in existence.
2. The longest words without vowels are 'rhythm' and 'syzygy' which means the alignment of 3 celestial bodies (the moon, the earth and the sun).
3. The one-syllable word in the English language which is the longest is 'screeched'.
4. R, S, T, L, N and E are the most common lettters in the English language used.
5. E is the most used letter while Q is the least used of all the letters in the English alphabet.
6. 'Town' is the oldest word in the English language.
7. 'Uncopyrightable' is the only word in the English language that doesn't repeat any letter and is 15 letters long.
8. 'Angry' and 'hungry' are the only two meaningful words that end with 'gry'
9. 'Bookkeeper' is the only word which has 3 consecutive double letters.
10. There are 6 words in the English language which have the letter combination 'uu'. They are 'muumuu' (which means a long loose-fitting dress), 'vacuum', 'continuum', duumvirate' (which is an alliance between 2 equally powerful political or military leaders), 'duumvir' (which is a rule by two people) and 'residuum' (which means remainder).
11. Ten body parts which have only three letters are : eye, ear, leg, arm, jaw, gum, toe, lip, hip and rib.
12. The two words which have vowels appearing in the correct order are facetious and arsenious.
13. The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am".
14. The word 'four' is the only number which has the same number of letters as its value.
15. There are no words that rhyme with 'month', 'orange', 'silver' and 'purple'.
16. 'Quisling' (which means a collaborator) is the only word to begin with 'quis'.
17. The longest word that you can type using only the left hand is 'stewardesses'
18. To use every letter of the English alphabet, you have to write the following sentence : The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
19. The following letters are germ spreaders as the sound of them can make you spit. They are the letters f, p, t, d and s.
20. The longest word that you can type using alternate hands is 'skepticisms'.
21. W is the only letter which doesn't have one syllable. It has three.
22. The longest word in the English language is 1909 long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
23. The old English word for sneeze is 'fneosam'. (Wonder how you pronounce that).
24. Only 4 words end in -dous and they are 'tremendous', 'horrendous', 'stupendous' and 'hazardous'.
25. There are only 3 world capitals that begin with the letter O in English : Ottawa, Canada; Oslo, Norway and Ouagadougou, Burlana Faso.
26. There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
27. The most difficult tongue-twister is : 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'.
28. 'Polish' is the only word in the English language which when capitalized change from being a verb to becoming a nationality.
29. In England, in the 1880s, 'pants' was a dirty word.
30. German is considered the sister language of English.

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