Wednesday, May 8, 2013

TRANSMAG 2013: FUN FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE




o  "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

o  The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

o  "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."


o  The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

o  There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

o  The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis  (a respiratory disease caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust).


o  The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

o  'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

o  The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

o  The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

o  The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."


Prepared by:
Sahar T. Sulaiman

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