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10 interesting facts about English language By Atia Mahmood

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Did you know?

Let's face it. J English is a strange language. There is no egg in the eggplant, No ham in the hamburger, And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England. French fries were not invented in France.

The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

10. The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only one word and that is “Go”.

9. The oldest word in the English language is “Town”.

8. In England, till 1880s using the word “pants” was considered indecent.

7. The word “goodbye” came from “God bye”, which in turn comes from “God be with you”. The phrase “so long” came from the Arabic word “salaam” and also from the Hebrew word “shalom”.

Did you know?

The word "NEWS" came from the first letters of the words North, East, West

and South. This was because information was being gathered from

all different directions.

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Jeffery Eugenides, The marriage plot

Remaining Facts:

“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.”

6. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest word in the English language is “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis”. The only other word with so many letters is its plural, “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses.

5. The word with most number of definitions in the English language is “set”.

4. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, and that seven-letter word is, “therein”, which contains: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

3. The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

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“The nine most terrifying words in the English

language are, ‘I ’m from the government and I’m

here to help.’” Ronald Reagan

2. There are six words in the English language, which have the letter combination ‘uu’. They are “muumuu”, which means a long loose-fitting dress, “vacuum”, “continuum”, “duumvirate”, which is an alliance between two equally powerful political or military leaders, “duumvir”, which is a rule by two people and “residuum”, which means remainder. There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”. They are: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. There are three words in the English language that end in “-ceed”: proceed, exceed, and succeed. The only two meaningful words that end in “-gry” in the English language are: “angry” and “hungry”.

1. There are no words that could rhyme with the words, orange, purple, silver, or month.