Sunday 20 February 2011

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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