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Quizing through english language?

For a change i am sharing some English language facts which i found in one of the pages of Download Softwares games (cracked) n, hope each one will enjoy it as i did. Myself being a school teacher i firmly believe these are for every school going students and for teacher also.
  • The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am.”
  • The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!
  • Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
  • Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a triple letter.
  • The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!
  • The sentence “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs” uses every letter of the alphabet and uses the least letters to do so!
  • The world’s longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagunga maugg).
  • In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.
  • “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
  • The longest word in the English language is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoco niosis’ which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust.
  • “Jack” is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
  • In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e’s), Indivisibility (six i’s), and nonannouncement (six n’s).
  • The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u’s is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
  • The very first dictionary “The American” took Noah Webster 20 years to put together.
  • The word “alphabet” is derived from the first two letters in the Greek alphabet: “alpha” and “beta”.

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  1. I didnt know about the alphabet one! How interesting. Good to know these facts :)

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