some known and unknown facts about english. you know
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Some Known and Unknown Facts about English
You Know
English as the International Language
Many people can speak English
375ml- first-language speakers375ml- second-language speakers375ml- foreign-language speakers
Language Families
The Celtic Tribes on the Territory of the British Isles
Germanic Tribes and Their Influence on the Formation of the Basis of the English Language
Other Languages except for English
Old English(the 5 cent.-1066)
Middle English(1066-1500)
Modern English(1500-present time)
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The first English dictionary was written in 1755!
The oldest word is
More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.
The longest word with only one vowel is ‘strengths’
The top five most-used English words are:
THE, OF, AND, TO, A.
The most commonly-used word in conversation is
is the most-used word in the English language.
Only two English words in current use end in "-gry"
No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
The words 'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters!
The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order!
The word "uncopyrightable" is the longest English word in normal use that contains no letter more than once.
The longest words in Oxford Dictionaries Online are:
Antidisestablishmentarianism- 28 lettersFloccinaucinihilipilification- 29 letters
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis- 45 letters
The longest official word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8
10 English words voted hardest to translate:
1 plenipotentiary 2 gobbledegook
3 serendipity 4 poppycock
5 googly 6 spam
7whimsy 8 bumf
9chuffed 10kitsch
The shortest complete sentence in English is the following
A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a "pangram".
English is changing every day. It means that there will be more new longest, new shortest and new most-used words in future.So, we’ll never say that we know English perfectly