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⁾

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⁾

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

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

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⁾

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

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

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

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⁾

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⁾

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⁾

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

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

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

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