ENGLISH LANGUAGE

TRIVIA AND FUNNY

FACTS
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English is a West Germanic language, that
was brought by Germanic or British settlers.
A big part of English language came from
the Anglo-Norman languages, thats
because why is it called a borrowed
language.
Nowadays, about 90% of people know
English.
There are 58 sovereign and 21 non-
sovereign countries, where English is an
official language.
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word 'alphabet'
comes from
first two letters
Greek alphabet
- alpha and
beta
In English language theres 26 letters [9
letters more than Hawaiian language and
48 letters less than Cambodian one] and
the letter e is the most commonly used
(1/8), which is followed by a. The least
used letter is Q.[only letter that dont occur
in the names of US states]
The book Gadsby, written by Ernest Vincent
Wright, has 50,110 words in it, none of them
in which contain the letter e.
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
is a sentence, where all 26 letters are used.
the oldest word is a .
panoramino
town
The first English dictionary was written in
1755
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there used to be a word in the dictionary
(from 1932 to 1940), which did not have any
meaning. The word was It happened due to
some error, this word was later known as
Ghost word.
is the longest word in
English that does not contain letter e
"Floccinaucinihilipilification,"

which refers to a lung disease, is often
considered the longest word in English.
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At 45 letters,
"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,"
A small
dot on i
or j is
called a
tittle
is the only word that ends in mt
deviantart
dreamt
the word is the longest word in the
English language with just one vowel
brokenmindest
'Strengths'
the past tense for the English word 'dare' is
.
Power is given only to those who dare to
lower themselves and pick it up. Only one
thing matters: to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
'durst
Actually there is no rhyming word in English
language for any of these five words!
month,silver,angel,orange,bulb.
Q: Did you hear about the Polak who
thought his wife was trying to kill him?






A: On her dressing table found a bottle of
"Polish Remover".
If you change Polish from a verb or a noun to
capital letters, it becomes a nationality
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
is sounding same as you
ewe
The plural form of brother is
brethern
The plural form of die is
dice
The plural form of formula is
formulae
The plural form of landsman is
landsleit
The plural form of schema is
schemata
The plural form of folk is
. folk [used folks too] is a
plural form itself
Its a Tongue twisters
time!
She sells seashells on the seashore.
flash message flash
message
Mix a box of mixed
biscuits with a boxed
biscuit mixer
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers,
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper
picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter
Piper picked?
One-One was a racehorse.
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one
race,
Two-Two won one, too