FACTS -ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Compared to other languages, English may seem simple, but that is probably because most people don’t realize it is full of crazy inventions, misinterpretations, mistakes, strange words, and needless words!

Here are 10 interesting facts about the English language:

  1. “I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

  2.  A pangram sentence is one that contains every letter in the language.                                               For example, the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram.

  3. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (*breath*) is NOT the longest word in English.                                        Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisis a type of lung disease caused by inhaling ash and dust. Go ahead and try pronouncing that!

  4. There are “ghost words” that mean nothing.             Believe it or not, there are some words that appeared in the dictionary because of printing errors. 

  5. The shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is “I.”  

  6. A new word is added to the dictionary every two hours.       

  7.  There’s a name for words that we repeat often.         Words we always use even though they add no meaning or value to a sentence are called crutch words.

  8.  Swims will be swims even when turned upside down.  Such words are called ambigrams.

  9. English is the language of the air.                              This means that all pilots have to identify themselves and speak in English while flying, regardless of their origin.

  10.   Girl used to mean small boy or girl. 
Here is the original link where you can read in detail about these facts -https://www.grammarly.com/blog/10-interesting-english-facts-guest/

~Sowmyalakshmi R.

Comments

  1. Mind-boggling bloggers!26 December 2017 at 08:37

    It's really interesting. There were so many information which was unknown.
    -S.Vidhya

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  2. Mind-boggling bloggers!27 December 2017 at 06:01

    Very informative and interesting post !!!!Especially Ghost words is very interesting!!!!
    -S.Sivanandhini

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  3. Unknown13 January 2018 at 21:45

    Very informative and interesting post!
    ---A. Meenakshi

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  4. Mind-boggling bloggers!15 January 2018 at 08:52

    Interesting read!!!
    -R.Srilalitha

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