12 INTERESTING FACTS about the English language Have you heard about them before 😄 1. ‘E’ is the most commonly used letter in the English language. In fact, as many as one in eight of all the letters written in English is ‘e’. 2. More English words begin with the letter ‘S’ than any other letter of the alphabet. 3. ‘I am.’ is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 4. The longest English word that can be spelled without repeating any letters is ‘uncopyrightable’. 5. The following sentence contains seven different spellings of the sound “ee”: ‘He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas’. 6. Do you know what is special about the following sentence? ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. This type of sentence is called a ‘pangram’ as it uses every letter in the English language. 7. The longest word in English has 45 letters: ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’! It is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling ash and sand dust. 8. There is no word in the English language that rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. 9. ‘Queueing’ is the only word with five consecutive vowels (five vowels in a row). This is a great word to use when you play hangman! 10. ‘Pronunciation’ is the word which is most mispronounced in the English language! 11. English is the official language of the sky! It doesn’t matter which country they are from, all pilots speak in English on international flights. 12. Approximately one new word is added to the English language every two hours and around 4,000 new words are added to the English dictionary every year.
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