10. The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only one word and that is “Go”.
9. The oldest word in the English language is “Town”.
8. In England, till 1880s using the word “pants” was considered indecent.
7. The word “goodbye” came from “God bye”, which in
turn comes from “God be with you”. The phrase “so long” came from the
Arabic word “salaam” and also from the Hebrew word “shalom”.
6. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the
longest word in the English language is
“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis”. The only other word
with so many letters is its plural,
“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses”.
5. The word with most number of definitions in the English language is “set”.
4. There is a seven-letter word in the English
language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters,
and that seven-letter word is, “therein”, which contains: the, there,
he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
3. 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.”
2. There are six words in the English language which
have the letter combination ‘uu’. They are “muumuu”, which means a long
loose-fitting dress, “vacuum”, “continuum”, “duumvirate”, which is an
alliance between two equally powerful political or military leaders,
“duumvir”, which is a rule by two people and “residuum”, which means
remainder. There are only four words in the English language which end
in “-dous”. They are: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are three words in the English language that end in “-ceed”:
proceed, exceed, and succeed. The only two meaningful words that end in
“-gry” in the English language are: “angry” and “hungry”.
1. There are no words that could rhyme with the words, orange, purple, silver, or month.
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