Friday, October 3, 2014

Unique English



English does not only have rich of structures and exceptions, but it also rich of unique facts. The following are some unique facts of English.

1. “Stewardessess” is the longest word that we can type using left hand on the keyboard, whereas “lollipop” is the longest word tha we can type using right hand.

2. “Dreamt” is the one and only word that ends with letter “mt
3. There are only four words in English that ends with letter “dous”, they are “tremendous”,”horrendous”,”stupendous” and “hazardous

4. “Typewriter” is the longest word that we can type using the first row of the keyboard (QWERTYUIOP)

5. “Rhythm” is the longest word in English that does not contain  vocal letter.

7. “Invisibility” is the only word in English which has only one vocal word that emerges five times.

8. “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English which has three consecutive repeated words by removing hyphen and merging the two words.   

9. “Strength” is the only word that contains one vocal word from eight-words in English.

10. There are only three words which ends with “ceed”, they are “proceed”,”exceed”, and succeed”

11. A sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” used for the example of every font  in the computer because it contains all letters of alphabet

12. “Four” is the only number in English which the number of letters are same with the number itself.

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