Intresting Facts About English

I was thinking about what to put on this ENGLISH BLOG. I decided most of my previous posts, as interesting and funny as they were to me, it was not very related to English, except my previous post about anagrams.

So I went to my good friend Google for some suggestions. I decided i wanted to know about intresting facts about the English language. I came upon this Site:

http://www.englishclub.com/interesting-facts/index.htm

Some things were interesting some as not, but still it was a fun quick read.

My Favorite Facts Were.

Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".

The word "bookkeeper" is the only unhyphenated English word with 3 consecutive repeated letters. Words such as "cross-section" and "bee-eater" normally require a hyphen to be readily readable.

More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.

The word "uncopyrightable" is the longest English word in normal use that contains no letter more than once.

A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a "pangram".

The following sentence contains all 26 letters of the alphabet: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards.

The dot over the letter "i" and the letter "j" is called a "superscript dot".

The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."

The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm".

There are only 4 English words in common use ending in "-dous": hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.

We can find 10 words in the 7-letter word "therein" without rearranging any of its letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

The following sentence contains 7 identical words in a row and still makes sense. "It is true for all that that that that that that that refers to is not the same that that that that refers to." (= It is true for all that, that that "that" which that "that" refers to is not the same "that" which that "that" refers to.)

Okay, So all of it was pretty interesting.

Love, Tilly.