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13. 'Rhythm' is the longest English word without
Amazing Facts in 'English'
vowel.
14. Over 400 million people use the English vocabu-
1. Dictionary was written in 1755.
lary as their mother tongue.
2. The oldest English word is 'town'. 15. The only 15 letters word that can be spelled

3. The least used letter in English language is Q. without repeating a letter is 'Uncopyrightable'.
4. There are only 4 words in English language which 16.In English language there is only one word in
end with 'dous'. They are : hazardous, horrendous, which the three pair of alphabet are continuous
stupendous, tremendous. ‘BOOKKEEPER’
5. The word 'Bookkeeper' and Bookkeeping' are the 17. 'Queue' is the only word in English language
only two words in the English language with three whose pronunciation remain same after removing
consecutive double letters. last four letters from the word.
6. The dot on the top of letter 'i' is called title. 18. 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'.
In this sentence all the 26 letters of alphabets are
7. The word 'strengths' is longest word in the Eng- introduced.
lish language with just one vowel.
19. The longest one syllable word in the English
8. The word 'almost' is the longest word in the Eng- language is "screeched".
lish language with all the letters in alphabetical or-
der. 20. 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in
the letter 'mt'.
9. The longest word in English language according
to oxford dictionary is: Pneumonoultramiulascapic- 21. 'Underground' is the only word in the English
silicovolcononios. language that begins and ends with letter 'und'.

10. No word in the English language 'rhyme' with 22. 'Go' is the shortest complete sentence in the
orange, silver or purple. English language.

11. All pilot on international flights identify them-
selves in English regardless of their country of
origin. By: Sudeepta Mohanty

(English Teacher)
12. The word 'angry' and 'hungry' are the only two
words which ends with 'gry'.