lunes, 3 de abril de 2017

Curiosities about English



  1. The english is the most language speaked in the world.
  2. Between the number 1 to 999 you don`t find any word with "A".
  3. The longest word in a major dictionary is “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," , this word is called : "p45".
  4. In the actuallity  there are only three words that end in -gry: Hungry , Angry and Hangry.
  5. The letter most used in this langugue is "e" followed by "a".
  6. The shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is “I.”
  7. “I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  8. 'Rhythm' is the only English word that hasn`t a vowel.
  9. In the dictionaries there are about 350,000 officially recognized letters and it is estimated that the total figure is about one million.
  10. If you were to write out every number in order as words ( one, two, three, four…) you wouldn’t use the letter ‘b’ until you reached one billion.
  11. The most  adjective used in English is ‘good’.
  12. English is the official language of 67 countries.
  13. English actually originates from what is now called north west Germany and the Netherlands.
  14. The most commonly used noun is ‘time’.
  15. Month, orange, silver, and purple do not rhyme with any other word.
  16. There are 24 different dialects of English in the US.

Alejandro Suárez Hervella

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