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Facts about English
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The longest word in the English language is...
52-letter word
13-letter word
26-letter word
45-letter word
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What kind of words are called "palindromes" in English?
They are read the same forward and backward - level, radar, racecar, madam.
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True or False? A new word is created every 98 minutes.
True.
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Can you guess the oldest and the shortest word in English?
The word is - "I".
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True or False? Nonfiction readers have larger vocabularies than fiction readers.
False.
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Can you guess a word with the largest number of definitions?
"Set" has 464 definitions and takes up 24 pages in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Do you know the closest living language to English?
Impossible to know but it's Frisian, spoken in 3 small areas of Germany and the Netherlands.
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True or False? If you write out all the numbers in order, you would not use the b until you got to 1 billion.
True.
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English has one of the largest vocabularies in any language, with estimates ranging
from 100,000 to over 200,000 words
from 600,000 to over 1 million words
from 30,000 to over 70,000 words
from 10,000 to over 20,000 words
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Can you guess the only word with 5 consecutive vowels?
Queueing.
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What’s a pangram sentence?
The sentence that uses every letter in the English alphabet. Look at the picture.
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What’s the name for the small dot on the letters "i" and "j"?
The tittle.
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