1. Do
you know word 'alphabet' comes from first two letters Greek alphabet - alpha
and beta?
2. Here
is a very simple sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet ,it is 'The
quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog ' !
3. Do
you know about 'crutch words' ?Crutch words are those words which we slip into
sentences to give us more time to think or emphasize on some point. We start
using them unconsciously but gradually they became part of our verbal tics. Few
examples of these words are -actually, obviously, like, honestly, basically etc.
Most of the times they don't add any value or meaning of a statement, for example,
‘I actually was absent that day.
4.The
sentence 'Are you as bored as I am ' can be read backwards and would still make
sense!
5. Do
you know a funny fact about the word 'listen'? It contains the same letters as
the word 'silent'!
6. Do
you there are few words in English language, which only exist in plural form?
Here are few –glasses, scissors, trousers, jeans, pants etc.
7. Do
you know that the word "uncopyrightable" is the longest English word
in normal use that contains no letter more than once?
8. If
we place a comma before the word "and" at the end of a list, this is
known as an "Oxford comma" or a "serial comma". For example:
"I drink coffee, tea, and water.
9. The
shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."
10. The
longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is
"rhythm".
Wow! You really triggered my interest hanadi in this post. I loved the 10 facts about the English language. I have read all the previously mentioned facts and they seem all logical and comprehensible. I usually use "crutch" words a lot in my daily conversations. They are helpful and you can use them as a distraction or sentence filler to retain the correct word later on.
ReplyDeletevery informative,and very helpful facts
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