Peculiar Facts about the English Language

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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1. Go is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
2. Bookkeeper is only one word in the English language which has three consecutive sets of double letters.
3. Underground is only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters und.
4. E is the most used letter in English language.
5. Q is least used letter in English language letter.
6. 4 is only number whose # of letters is equals to its name.
7. One is only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
8. Set words in the English language, has the most definitions.
9. Forty is only number which has its letters in alphabetical order.
10. Indivisibility is only word in the English language which has one vowel which occurs five times
11. Almost is the shortest word in the English language with all letters in alphabetical order in a word
12. Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed","proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."
13. The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis.This word means a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust.
14. The other longest word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoconioses but it’s plural.
15. There is no word that rhymes with “orange”, “silver”, and “purple”or “month”.
16. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
17. Toughest tongue twister in English is- “The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick".
18. 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 and herein.
19. That English has the largest vocabulary of all World Languages (around 800'000 words)?
20. English has more Synonyms than all the languages in the world.