sábado, 12 de marzo de 2016

English curiosities.

English curiosities

The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses all the letters of the English alphabet.
The longest word in English is "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"(45 letters).
There isn´t a word that rhyme with "orange""silver","month" or "purple".
They say "I have a Spanish stomach"  when they feel stomach ache.
In English the name of all the continents starts and ends with the same letter: "AmericA", "EuropE", "AsiA"... except from OceaniA
The longest monosyllabic word in English is "screetched".
The only word that ends in -mt is "dreamt".
The most used letter in the English alphabet is "E".
The least used letter in the English alphabet is "Q".
The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am".
The only word in the English language that has four sets of double letters in a row is "balloonneer".
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.
"Abstemious", "abstemiously", "abstentious", "adventitious", "adventitiously", "arenicolous", "arsenious" and "cavernicolous" are the words with each of the vowels in order without being repeated.
"Almost" is the longest word with the letters in alphabetical order.

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