Facts about English

Here is a list of facts about English that I found while surfing the net. Most of the facts are interesting and when I first read them, I often asked my self "Mmmm...I didnt know this..." but now I know.

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  English is the most widespread language in the world and is more widely spoken and written than any other language?
• Over 400 million people use the English vocabulary as a mother tongue, only surpassed in numbers, but not in distribition by speakers of the many varieties of Chinese?
• Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
• The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!
• "Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
• The longest word in the English language is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’ which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust.
• The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u’s is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
• The word “alphabet” is derived from the first two letters in the Greek alphabet: “alpha” and beta
• The only words with all the vowels listed in order are facetiously and abstemiously.
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.

I will post some more interesting facts soon.