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Interesting Facts About English Language
Interesting Facts About English Language
Interesting Facts About English Language
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There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs Six times, "indivisibility.
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, herein.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people.
Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu.
There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.
There are only two sequences of four consecutive letters that can be found in the English language: "rstu" and "mnop." understudy and gymnophobia
There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "duos"
that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y, abstemiously & facetiously
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
The shortest word in the English language with all its letters in alphabetical order is the word "almost
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched"
Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about ,
800,000 words
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. Going into history of dictionaries, would like to tell that first English dictionary was printed in 1755. A few words in English language, exist only in plural form?
You would be surprised to know that Pronunciation is the most mispronounced word. Do you know there used to be a word in the dictionary (from 1932 to 1940), which did not have any meaning? The word was,
Dord
Do you know a funny fact about the word 'listen'? It
letter of the alphabet ,it is The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog