Curiosities about English language.
- Torpenhow Hill near Plymouth, England means
"Hillhillhill Hill." - from Saxon tor, Celtic pen, Scandinavian how,
Middle English hill.
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
dog" uses every letter of the alphabet!
- The most used letter in the English alphabet is "E", and
"Q" is the least used!
- Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the
most definitions.
- The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am".
- "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
- The only word in the English language that has four sets of double letters in
row is balloonneer.
- The word "Queue" is the only word in the English language that is
still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
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