Interesting Facts About English Language ..... * Do you know word alphabet comes from first two letters Greek alphabet - alpha and beta *Here is a very simple sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet ,it is The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog ! * Challenge your friends by asking them to tell a rhyming English word for any of following five words- month,silver,angel,orange or bulb.Actually there is no rhyming word in English language for any of these five words! * Want to impress your friends? Remember, Scolionophobia –It means to have fear of School, hope you don’t have it. * The sentence Are you as bored as I am can be read backwards and would still make sense! * The longest word in English is 45 letters long ! It is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis! It refers to a lung disease caused by silica dust. * Don’t be surprised if we tell you that English language has richest vocabulary as compared to any other language in the world. Few of the dictionaries claim to have 6, 00,000 words. * Going into history of dictionaries, would like to tell that first English dictionary was printed in 1755
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