Download Little Known English Facts and the History of the

Little Known English
Facts and the History
of the English
Language
Interesting Facts
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is
still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are
removed.
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the
most definitions!
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is
known as an "English kiss" in France!
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the
letters in alphabetical order!
More Facts!
The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is
the least used.
Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a
triple letter!
No English words rhyme fully with orange, silver, or month
(there are, however, some partial rhymes, or pararhymes, for
these words, such as salver for silver and lozenge for
orange).
The only three words in the English language to have 2
consecutive ”U’s is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
And more!
The oldest words in the English language are around
14,000 years old, originating in a pre-Indo-European
language group called Nostratic ("our language") by
experts. Words from this language group that survive
in modern English include apple (apal), bad (bad),
gold (gol), and tin (tin).
Typewriter is the longest word typed only with the top
row of a standard QWERTY keyboard.
And even more!!!!
The longest word in the English language, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary, is
“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis”. The only
other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
French was the official language of England for over 600
years.
"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the
name equals the number.
English is the official language of 53 countries.
The Origins of Words
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Latin: 28.24%
•
Germanic 25%
•
Lang d’oil 28.4%
•
Greek 5.23%
•
Other 8.31%
English History
The first publish english book was Canterbury
Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
English is a west Germanic
language
The English language is the
official language in 53 countries
Bibliographie
http://www.world-english.org/facts.htm
http://www.dumbfacts.com/facts/directoryof-facts/just-dumb/english/
www.funshun.com/amazing-facts/languagefacts2.html
http://www.sentex.net/~ajy/facts/words.html
http://www.wikipedia.ca/
http://www.inglish.com/