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Monday, 23 December 2013

English Facts



# “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
# Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
# No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
# Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
# The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.
# TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
# The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
# There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
# The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”
# “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
# The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.
# The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
# “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
# The longest single-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
# The ampersand (&) was the last letter of the Latin alphabet.

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