10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE

 

1.    “Go!” is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in the English Language.

2.    11% of the entire English language is just the letter E.

3. The letter ‘I’ is the shortest, oldest and most commonly used word in English.

4. The most common adjective used in English is ‘good’.

5. The most commonly used noun is ‘time’.

6. The word ‘set’ has the highest number of definitions.

7. The oldest English word that is still in use is ‘town’.

8. Only two English words in current use end in “-gry”. They are “angry” and “hungry”.

9. The first English dictionary was written in 1755.

10. There are only 4 English words in common use ending in "-dous": hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.

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N.Shanmugan
Assistant Professor of English
Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science
Coimbatore - 641 020.