25 Amazing facts about English language

English is the International language. It is spoken by almost everyone in today’s era. There are many unknown yet interesting facts related to this language. Let’s delve deeper into them.

1. The word “queue” in English is the only word whose pronunciation remains same even if we remove the last four words of the letter.

25 Amazing facts about English language

2. “Almost” is the longest word in english, with all its letters in English alphabetical numbers.

25 Amazing facts about English language

3. The first dictionary of English was written in 1755.

25 Amazing facts about English language

4. The oldest word in English is ‘town’.

25 Amazing facts about English language

5. “Rhythm” (rhythm) is the biggest word without the vowel.

25 Amazing facts about English language

6. “Go” is the shortest sentence of the English language.

25 Amazing facts about English language

7. On keyboard, there are three pairs of letters in alphabetical order (fgh, jkl, op).

25 Amazing facts about English language

8. The longest word to type from the right hand is ‘lollipop’.

25 Amazing facts about English language

9. ‘Stewardesses’ (service) is the biggest word that is type from left-hand.

25 Amazing facts about English language

10. This sentence contains all the letters of the English language in ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.’

25 Amazing facts about English language

11. In all the words of England, “set” is a word that has many definitions.

25 Amazing facts about English language

12. ‘Typewriter’ is the longest word that is typed on the same line on the keyboard.

25 Amazing facts about English language

13. The dot on ‘i’ is said to be a ‘tittle’.

25 Amazing facts about English language

14. There are only two such words in English that the five vowels and those too in alphabetical numbers – ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious’ (funny).

25 Amazing facts about English language

15. ‘Feedback’ is the shortest word in the English language, which includes A, B, C, D, E and F.

25 Amazing facts about English language

16. ‘Dreamt’ is the only word of English that ends with ‘mt’.

25 Amazing facts about English language

17. ‘Uncopyrightable’ is the only 15-letter word in which there is no repetition of any letter.

25 Amazing facts about English language

18. The word ‘checkmate’ used in Chess comes from the Persian idiom ‘Shah Mate’ which means ‘Raja died’.

25 Amazing facts about English language

19. If the words ‘Malayalam’, ‘Liril’, ‘Madam’ and ‘Nitin’ are written downside down, then it remains the same.

25 Amazing facts about English language

20. ‘Underground’ is the only word that starts and ends with ‘und’.

25 Amazing facts about English language

21. There are three such words that end with “ceed”. These are “Proceed”, “exceed” and “succeed”.

25 Amazing facts about English language

22. The counting of English words are 800,000 which is more than any other language.

25 Amazing facts about English language

23. ‘Bookkeeper’ is the only word that has 3 pairs of double letters.

25 Amazing facts about English language

24. There are only two words that have ‘gry’ in the end. They are ”angry” and ‘hungry’.

25 Amazing facts about English language

25. Most English words start with ‘s’.

25 Amazing facts about English language

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