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Interesting Facts About Englishand other thingsThe most common letter in English is "e".The most common vowel in English is "e", followed by "a".The most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".Every syllable in English must have a vowel (sound). Not all syllables have consonants.Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".The word "bookkeeper" (along with its associate "bookkeeping") is the only unhyphenated English word with three consecutive double letters. Other such words, like "sweet-toothed", require a hyphen to be readily readable.The word "triskaidekaphobia" means "fear of Friday the 13th". It also means "superstition about the number thirteen" in general.More English words beginwith the letter "s" than with any other letter.A preposition is always followed by a noun (ie noun, proper noun, pronoun, noun group, gerund).Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors. The word "mile" comes from the Roman milia, "thousands". The Romansmeasured distances in paces, which were about five feet. So, milia passum, 1,000 paces or about 5,000 feet, was the length of a mile. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw en uaitnatahu, a New Zealand hill. 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 26letters of the alphabet: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards.The only word in English that ends with the letters "-mt" is "dreamt" (which is a variant spelling of "dreamed") -as well of course as "undreamt" :)
A word formed by joining together parts of existing words is called a "blend" (or, less commonly, a "portmanteau word"). Many new words enter the English language in this way. Examples are "brunch" (breakfast + lunch); "motel" (motorcar + hotel); and "guesstimate" (guess + estimate). Note that blends are not the same as compounds or compound nouns, which form when two whole words join together, for example: website, blackboard, darkroom.The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, bēta.The dot over the letter "i" and the letter "j" is called a "superscript dot".The word "idiot" was once used to describe an ordinary person; it gradually came to mean a layman, as contrasted with a clergyman. Since few outside the clergy were educated, the term became associated with an uneducated and hence ignorant and foolish one, and eventually became associated with a mentally deficient personIf we place a comma before the word "and" at the end of alist, this is known as an "Oxford comma" or a "serial comma". For example: "I drink coffee, tea, and wine."Some words exist only in plural form, for example: glasses (spectacles), binoculars, scissors, shears, tongs, gallows, trousers, jeans, pants, pyjamas (but note that clothing words often become singular when we use them as modifiers, as in "trouser pocket").The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am.Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning."The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning "the king is helpless".We pronounce the combination "ough" in 9 different ways, as in the following sentence which containsthem all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm".In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.Most lipstick contains fish scales. The only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth. The others are, in order from the Sun, Mercury, Venus, [Earth,] Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.