17 Interesting Trivia About The English Language that you probably not Know

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English is an all-inclusive language, an absolute necessity in this day and age. The vast majority of us accept that we have extensive information about the language, however, you'll be shocked to find irregular, astounding realities that aren't very notable.

Not things we'd wonder about generally but rather mind-blowing to know regardless. No ifs, ands or buts, language is the most significant creation by mankind. It is the very center of our reality and the strategy for correspondence without which the world wouldn't be what it is.

Language is broad to the point that we can never completely cover it. There's continually something new to learn and add to our psychological word references and vocabularies. Along these lines, here is a couple for you. Appreciate it. (source)

The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only one word and that is "Go".

At 45 letters. the ongest word in English is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis"

The only other word with so many letters is its plural, "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses"

The word with maximum number of definitions in English is "set".

It has an astounding 464 definitions.

There is a seven-letter word in English that consists of ten words without rearranging any letters.

The word is "therein". The word within therein are:

The, There, He, In, Rein, Her, Here, Ere, Therein, Herein.

A sentence containing every letter in the language is called "Pangram".

The most well-known example of this is:

'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'

"Bookkeeper" and "Bookkeeping" are the only 2 words with three consecutive double letters.

"Almost" is the longest word in English with all letters in alphabetical order.

One of the oldest, shortest, most commonly used words in old and new English is "I".

"E" is the most commonly used letter in the English language.

One in eight of all the letters written in English is 'e'.

There are nine different ways to pronounce "ough" in English.

This sentence contains all forms of "ough":

'A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a sloug, he coughed and hiccoughed.'

The longest English word that can be spelled without repeating any letters is "uncopyrightable".

There is no word in English that rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

Approximately one new word is added to the English language every 2 hours and around 4,000 new words are added to the English dictionary every year.

More English words begin with the letter 's' than with any other letter.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called Tittle.

The name for a word we repeat too often is 'crutch'.

These include words such as actually, basically, honestly, like, etc.

They add no value or meaning to a sentence.

The word 'alphabet' comes from the first letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta.

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Wow I have never heard of this or seen it before.

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