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| موضوع: INTERESTING FACTS !! الخميس أكتوبر 13, 2011 6:14 pm | |
| Interesting Facts About English in no particular order...
- The
most common letter in English is "e".
- The
most common vowel in English is "e", followed by "a".
- The
most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".
- Every
syllable in English must have a vowel (sound). Not all syllables have consonants.
- Only
two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".
- The
word "bookkeeper" is the only unhyphenated English word with 3 consecutive repeated letters. Words such as "cross-section" and "bee-eater" normally require a hyphen to be readily readable.
- The
word "triskaidekaphobia" means "fear of Friday the 13th". It also means "superstition about the number thirteen" in general.
- More
English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.
- A preposition is always followed by a noun (ie
noun, proper noun, pronoun, noun group, gerund).
- The
word "uncopyrightable" is the longest English word in normal use that contains no letter more than once.
- A
sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a "pangram".
- The
following sentence contains all 26 letters of the alphabet: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards.
- The
only word in English that ends with the letters "-mt" is "dreamt" (which is a variant spelling of "dreamed") - as well of course as "undreamt"
- A word
formed by joining together parts of existing words is called a "blend" (or, less commonly, a "portmanteau word"). Many new words enter the English language in this way. Examples are "brunch" (breakfast + lunch); "motel" (motorcar + hotel); and "guesstimate" (guess + estimate). Note that blends are not the same as compounds or compound nouns, which form when two whole words join together, for example: website, blackboard, darkroom.
- The
word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, bēta.
- The dot
over the letter "i" and the letter "j" is called a "superscript dot".
- In
normal usage, the # symbol has several names, for example: hash, pound sign, number sign.
- In
English, the @ symbol is usually called "the at sign" or "the at symbol".
- If we
place a comma before the word "and" at the end of a list, this is known as an "Oxford comma" or a "serial comma". For example: "I drink coffee, tea, and wine."
- Some
words exist only in plural form, for example: glasses (spectacles), binoculars, scissors, shears, tongs, gallows, trousers, jeans, pants, pyjamas (but note that clothing words often become singular when we use them as modifiers, as in "trouser pocket").
- The
shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."
- The
word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning "the king is helpless".
- We
pronounce the combination "ough" in 9 different ways, as in the following sentence which 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." Download
- The
longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm".
- The
only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth. The others are, in order from the Sun, Mercury, Venus, [Earth,] Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
- There
are only 4 English words in common use ending in "-dous": hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.
- We can
find 10 words in the 7-letter word "therein" without rearranging any of its letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
- The
following sentence contains 7 identical words in a row and still makes sense. "It is true for all that that that that that that that refers to is not the same that that that that refers to." (= It is true for all that that that that which that that refers to is not the same that which that that refers to.)
- The
"QWERTY keyboard" gains its name from the fact that its first 6 letter keys are Q, W, E, R, T and Y. On early typewriters the keys were arranged in such a way as to minimize the clashing of the mechanical rods that carried the letters.
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| موضوع: رد: INTERESTING FACTS !! الخميس أكتوبر 13, 2011 6:37 pm | |
| for these facts . they 're really interesting |
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FAGHI EL GHARBI مشارك
عدد المساهمات : 16
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| موضوع: رد: INTERESTING FACTS !! الخميس أكتوبر 13, 2011 7:13 pm | |
| u're welcome |
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