English is perhaps the most widely spoken in the word if number of speakers and usability is considered. This language is getting embraced by more and more people in the world, gradually pushing it on the way of becoming lingua franca of the planet. Spoken over 79 countries all over the world, there is no doubt why English is considered universal language.
Regarding the importance of this language, we have collected some fun facts about English you might not have known.
- The shortest complete meaningful phrase in English is ‘I ‘
- The longest English word that can be spelled without repetition of any letter is ‘uncopyrightable.’
- English language boasts of owning the richest vocabulary compared to any other language. Some dictionaries even claim to contain one-fourth of a million different as well as active words in English language.
- The first English was developed by Samuel Johnson. It got printed in 1755.
- Every sixth people in world understands and speaks English language.
- ‘E’ is the most common letter in English language.
- For the word ‘ough,’ there are nine different ways of pronunciation, like rough, dough, ploughman, slough,
- Due to a printing error, the word ‘Dord’ remain included in the English dictionary from 1932 to 1940. The work later became known as ‘ghost word.’
- ‘Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.’ Did you notice something unique in this sentence? It is called an pangram which uses all letter of English languages at least once in a single sentence.
Some more examples are:
- The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
- The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
- There are no rhyming words for silver, orange, month and purple in English language.
- The word ‘queue’ is the only world in English vocabulary that is pronounced similar to single letter – ‘Q.’
- The most mispronounced word in English is none other than ‘pronunciation’!
- All pilots speak in English on international flights, no matter to which country they belong.
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