Fun Facts About English Language

Fun Facts About English Language

1. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

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

3. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

4. No word in the English language rhymes with month.

5. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

6. Four words end in"-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

7. The longest word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

8. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

9. There is only 1 word with three consecutive sets of double letters: Bookkeeper .

10. There is a word with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."!

11. The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched".

12. The letter most in use in the English language is "E" and the letter "Q" is least used.

13. Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."

14. No language has more synonyms than English!

15. Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.

16. French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

17. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

18. "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

19. "Go. Go. Go. Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

20. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

21. There is a seven letter word that contains ten words "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

22. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

23. The verb "cleave" has two opposite meanings. It can mean to adhere or to separate.

24. "mate", "eight" and "strait" all make the same sound they are spelled totally differently!

25. There are 3 one-syllable words with 9 letters: "stretched," "scratched" and "screeched."

26. "Scissors", "binoculars" and "tongs" exist only as a plural!

27. The shortest sentence using all the alphabet is "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

28. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!