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English Language

Pangram

A statement that uses every letter in the language is known as a pangram. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, for instance.1)

Lynch

The name Colonel Charles Lynch (1736–96), a landowner in Virginia who started holding unauthorized trials in his backyard in 1790, is where the word “lynch” originates.2)

Shortest Word

The English language's shortest and oldest word is “I”.3)

Oysterhood

Oysterhood is defined as “reclusiveness” or “an intense desire to be at home”.4)

Ambigram

A word that appears the same in several orientations is said to be ambigrammatic. The word “swims,” for instance, will still be the same when flipped over.5)

Marine And Aviation

The official language of marine and aviation communications is English.6)

Often Used

The third most often used native tongue worldwide is English. The top two are Standard Chinese and Spanish, respectively.7)

Letter B In Numbers

The letter “b” wouldn't appear until the word “billion” if you spelled down all the digits (such as one, two, three, etc.).8)

Longest Word

The longest word in the English language is “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,” which has 45 letters. It is the formal name for a certain sort of lung condition.9)

From Old English

Nearly all of the top 100 English words are derived from Old English. “A,” “the,” “and,” pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions (from, with, when), and the many forms of the verbs “to have” and “to be” are among these words.10)

Oxford English Corpus

Over 2.5 billion words are available in the Oxford English Corpus. The Oxford English Corpus is a collection of texts from the twenty-first century that is used to chart the evolution of English across time.11)

Average Word Knowledge

Adult English speakers on average know between 20,000 and 35,000 words.12)

Word Lifespan

Words can last from one thousand to twenty thousand years. Words that are used more frequently tend to be lengthier.13)

Reading Fiction

The vocabulary of fiction readers is greater than that of non-readers. Nonfiction typically uses a smaller vocabulary than fiction.14)

More 2nd Language Learners

There are more people who speak English as a second language than there are native speakers of the language worldwide.15)

Shakespeare

During his lifetime, Shakespeare contributed 1,700 new words to the English language.16)

New Word Is Created

Every 98 minutes, or around 14.7 words per day, a brand-new word is produced.17)

Popularity

Around 1.53 billion individuals use English as their primary, secondary, or professional language in 2018. 1 in 7 persons on Earth are represented by this.18)

Most Commonly Used Letter

The most frequently used letter in the English language is “e”.19)

Hydroxyzine

The letters X, Y, and Z are only found in order in one word in all of English: hydroxyzine. This unusual name refers to a sort of medication that lessens anxiety and sneezing.20)

Overmorrow

The term “overmorrow”, however uncommon, is used to describe the day after tomorrow.21)

Language Of Science

In the sciences, English is the most widely used language.22)

Norman Conquest

The Norman Conquest in 1066 fundamentally altered the English language. Thousands of French terms related to the church, courts, and government, such as baron, noble, parliament, governor, and feast, were introduced to England when the Normans (French) invaded.23)

Not Offcial In The United States

English is not the official language of the United States.24)

Anagram

An anagram is a word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of the original word or phrase. An anagram of the word “itself” is the word “stifle”, for instance.25)

Set

The English word “set” is the most difficult. The 60,000 word meaning for this little term, which has over 430 definitions, fills 24 pages in the Oxford English Dictionary.26)

Words With Only Vowels

In the English language, there are 36 words that only include vowels (for example aa, ae, ai, oe, and eau).27)

Queue

Even if the final four letters are dropped, the word “queue” still sounds the same. In medieval artwork and designs, a queue originally denoted the tail of a beast before it came to imply “line”.28)

Almost

“Almost” is the longest word that is common and has all of the letters in alphabetical sequence.29)

Letter S

S is the letter that is the beginning of more English words than any other.30)

Funny Words

The top 10 most funny terms in the English language, according to academics at the University of Warwick, are booty, tit, booby, hooter, nitwit, twit, waddle, tinkling, bebop, and egghead.31)

Good

With 370 synonyms, the word “good” has the most in the English language.32)

Callipygian

It's true that there is an English word for “shapely buttocks.” It's “callipygian”, by the way. It derives from the Greek word “kallipygos”, which means “kallos (beautiful) + pyge” (buttocks).33)

Longest Word Without Vowels

“Rhythms” is the longest word in general usage without a vowel.34)

Misused Word

Ironic is the English word that is most frequently misused. Many people mistake irony for sarcasm, coincidence, or paradox.35)

Rhinorrhea

The medical name for “runny nose” is “rhinorrhea”.36)

First Numer With A

One thousand is the first number written out that starts with a “a”.37)

More English Speakers In China

Chinese people speak English at a higher rate than Americans do.38)

Algonquian

The now extinct Algonquian language gave rise to the terms “moose,” “opossum,” “pecan,” “raccoon,” “skunk,” and “squash” in English. On what is now Roanoke Island in the United States, they were a local tribe that resided at the location of the first English colony.39)

Darkle

“Darkle” is the antithesis of “sparkle”.40)

Whatever

Whatever is continuously rated as the most irritating English word.41)

Frisian

Frisian, a West Germanic language spoken in portions of the Netherlands and Germany, is the tongue most similar to English.42)

Longest Word With 4 Letters

“Senseless” is the longest word you can create with just four letters.43)

Good-Bye

God be with you is condensed into the term “good-bye”.44)

Capitonyms

When the initial letter of a word is capitalized, the word's meaning is altered. Turkey (the nation) and turkey, (the bird) for instance.45)

Time

The word “time” is the most used noun in the English language.46)

Most Commonly Used Word

The most often used word in English is “the,” which is followed by the words “be,” “to,” “of,” “and,” “a,” “in,” “that,” “have,” and “I”.47)

Cul-de-sac

Culs-de-sacs are the plural of cul-de-sac.48)

Embox

Embox is short for “put something in a box”.49)

Checkmate

The Arabic word “shah mat”, which means “the king is powerless”, is where the word “checkmate” in chess comes from.50)