LANGUAGE LEARNING (#2. FUN FACTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE) WITH PODCAST
In today's article, you will learn about some special fun facts about English Language. Here is the top 13 fun facts, you don't know.
1. There has only two english words in current use end with 'gry' . They are "angry" and "hungry".
isn't it weird ??
2. The shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is “I.”
A report proves that "I" , "We" , "Two" ,"Three" are the oldest words in English language. And "I" is the shortest and most commonly used word.
3. "E" is everywhere !The most common letter in English is “E”. According to Readers Digest, “In an analysis of all 240,000 entries in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, OED editors found that the letter E appears in approximately 11% of all words in the common English vocabulary, about 6,000 more words than the runner-up letter, A.
What’s more: E is the most commonly struck letter on your keyboard, and the second most popular key after the space bar. It’s one third of the single most-used word in English—“the”—and appears in the most common English noun (“time”), the most common verb (“be”), in ubiquitous pronouns like he, she, me, and we, not to mention tens of thousands of words ending in -ed and -es.”
4. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in English Language.
yeah i am astonished too like you.
5. 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' is the longest word in English.
This 45-letter word is a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.
Even i can't pronounce it properly . Can you??
6. A new word is added to the dictionary every two hours.
Between now and your next meal, a new word will be added in the dictionary. During the course of the year, almost 4,000 new words are added!
7. English is not the official language of USA. Infact, the US has no official language from a federal level.
Don’t believe me? Wikipedia doesn’t lie!.
8. Swims will be swims even when turned upside down.
Yeah you can examine it.
9. If you wrote out all the numbers (i.e. one, two …), you would not use the letter “b” until the word “billion.” And also You can spell every number up to “1000” without using the letter “a".
Don't recheck what you just read. You read it right.
10. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet.
OMG!!
11. Girl used to mean small boy or girl.
The word “girl” was not used to refer to a specific gender. It used to mean “child” or “young person” regardless of the gender.
12.The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it - FOUR.
13. The English Language is said to be one of the happiest language in World. The word "Happy" is used 3 times more often than the word "Sad" !
SO BE HAPPY..
YOU GUYS. HOPE I CAN ABLE TO GIVE YOU SOME INFORMATION. DON'T FORGET TO SHARE THIS FUN FACTS WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
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https://anchor.fm/ag10/episodes/ENGLISH-LANGUAGES-FUN-FACTS-eu6lmb
1. There has only two english words in current use end with 'gry' . They are "angry" and "hungry".
isn't it weird ??
2. The shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is “I.”
A report proves that "I" , "We" , "Two" ,"Three" are the oldest words in English language. And "I" is the shortest and most commonly used word.
3. "E" is everywhere !The most common letter in English is “E”. According to Readers Digest, “In an analysis of all 240,000 entries in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, OED editors found that the letter E appears in approximately 11% of all words in the common English vocabulary, about 6,000 more words than the runner-up letter, A.
What’s more: E is the most commonly struck letter on your keyboard, and the second most popular key after the space bar. It’s one third of the single most-used word in English—“the”—and appears in the most common English noun (“time”), the most common verb (“be”), in ubiquitous pronouns like he, she, me, and we, not to mention tens of thousands of words ending in -ed and -es.”
4. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in English Language.
yeah i am astonished too like you.
5. 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' is the longest word in English.
This 45-letter word is a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.
Even i can't pronounce it properly . Can you??
6. A new word is added to the dictionary every two hours.
Between now and your next meal, a new word will be added in the dictionary. During the course of the year, almost 4,000 new words are added!
7. English is not the official language of USA. Infact, the US has no official language from a federal level.
Don’t believe me? Wikipedia doesn’t lie!.
8. Swims will be swims even when turned upside down.
Yeah you can examine it.
9. If you wrote out all the numbers (i.e. one, two …), you would not use the letter “b” until the word “billion.” And also You can spell every number up to “1000” without using the letter “a".
Don't recheck what you just read. You read it right.
10. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet.
OMG!!
11. Girl used to mean small boy or girl.
The word “girl” was not used to refer to a specific gender. It used to mean “child” or “young person” regardless of the gender.
12.The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it - FOUR.
13. The English Language is said to be one of the happiest language in World. The word "Happy" is used 3 times more often than the word "Sad" !
SO BE HAPPY..
YOU GUYS. HOPE I CAN ABLE TO GIVE YOU SOME INFORMATION. DON'T FORGET TO SHARE THIS FUN FACTS WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
IF YOU A SCIENCE LOVER , IF YOU HAVE INTEREST IN ASTRONOMY THEN YOU CAN VISIT MY SITE.⤵️ Here
FOR PODCAST LOVERS ⤵️
https://anchor.fm/ag10/episodes/ENGLISH-LANGUAGES-FUN-FACTS-eu6lmb
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