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English The Worst Language Ever..... by Johnnyoungster(m): 9:10pm On Dec 28, 2013
Do you know word 'alphabet' comes from first two letters Greek alphabet - alpha and beta ?
Here is a very simple sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet ,it is 'The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog ' !
Do you know about 'crutch words' ?Crutch words are those words which we slip into sentences to give us more time to think or emphasize on some point. We start using them unconsciously but gradually they became part of our verbal tics.Few examples of these words are -actually,obviously,like,honestly,basically etc.Most of the times they don't add any value or meaning of a statement ,for example,'I actually was absent that day.'So what is your crutch word?
Challenge your friends by asking them to tell a rhyming English word for any of following five words- month,silver,angel,orange or bulb.Actually there is no rhyming word in English language for any of these five words!
Want to impress your friends? Remember, Scolionophobia –It means to have fear of School, hope you don’t have it.
Talking of Phobias, you may get whole list of phobias on internet, but here is one interesting phobia - ‘Phobophobia’–It means fear (phobia) of having any phobia. So you got a word for phobia of phobias.
The word 'swims' when turned upside down will still look like same i.e.'swims'.
The sentence 'Are you as bored as I am ' can be read backwards and would still make sense!
Now test your friends, ask them to say ‘the sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick’.It is known to be the toughest tongue –twister in English language.
Do you know a funny fact about the word 'listen'? It contains the same letters as the word 'silent'!
Do you know there used to be a word in the dictionary (from 1932 to 1940), which did not have any meaning? The word was ‘Dord’.It happened due to some error, this word was later known as Ghost word. You would be surprised to know that ‘Pronunciation’ is the most mispronounced word.
The longest word in English is 45 letters long ! It is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'! It refers to a lung disease caused by silica dust.
Do you know about a 5 letter word in English dictionary, which is pronounced in the same way even when the last four letters are removed from it? Oh, you guessed it right, it is ‘queue’.
Here is something more about ‘Q’, would like to tell you that it is the least used letter in English language.
Do you there are few words in English language, which only exist in plural form? Here are few –glasses, scissors, trousers, jeans, pants etc.
Also you may be interested to know that one in every 6 persons in world knows or speaks English language.
Also the first word spoken on the moon by a human was an English word! Do you want to know what it was ? It was ‘ok’ (well a small controversy exists here,few say it was ‘Houston’ ,others say it was ‘Contact’, anyway all the said word were in English).
Don’t be surprised if we tell you that English language has richest vocabulary as compared to any other language in the world. Few of the dictionaries claim to have 6, 00,000 words.
Going into history of dictionaries, would like to tell that first English dictionary was printed in 1755.

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Re: English The Worst Language Ever..... by Archmage(m): 9:20pm On Dec 28, 2013
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Re: English The Worst Language Ever..... by Blackeard(m): 9:22pm On Dec 28, 2013
Interesting tale old chap, do tell it again
Re: English The Worst Language Ever..... by Nobody: 9:39pm On Dec 28, 2013
Crutch words are common with girls.
Re: English The Worst Language Ever..... by Dannylux: 10:13pm On Dec 28, 2013
Not spaced. Very unattractive.
Re: English The Worst Language Ever..... by adegwurulez(m): 12:18am On Dec 29, 2013
Silver-singer- ginger
Re: English The Worst Language Ever..... by Johnnyoungster(m): 1:08pm On Dec 29, 2013
Dannylux: Not spaced. Very unattractive.
thanks promise to inprove next time

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