Interesting Facts about English Language

1)“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

2)A pangram sentence is one that contains every letter in the language.

For example, the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram.

3) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (*breath*) is NOT the longest word in English.

The longest word is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , a type of lung disease caused by inhaling ash and dust. 

4) There are “ghost words” that mean nothing.

There are some words that appeared in the dictionary because of printing errors. The nonexistent word “dord” appeared in the dictionary for eight years in the mid-20th century. It became known as a “ghost word.”

5) The shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is “I.”

6) A new word is added to the dictionary every two hours.

7) There’s a name for words that we repeat often- Crutch Words

Words we always use even though they add no meaning or value to a sentence are called crutch words. For example, in the sentence “Then I was like, OMG, then like, he went there, and like…” it is pretty obvious that “like” is the crutch word. “Actually,” “honestly,” and “basically” are also commonly used as crutch word

8) Swims will be swims even when turned upside down.

Such words are called ambigrams. 

9) English is the language of the air.

This means that all pilots have to identify themselves and speak in English while flying, regardless of their origin. 

10) Girl used to mean small boy or girl.

The word “girl” was not initially used to refer to a specific gender. It used to mean “child” or “young person” regardless of the gender.

                                 

                                   Source- Rochelle Ceira  (Team member of   dissertation experts at Dissertation Avenue)