14 interesting facts about the English language

1. A new word in English is created every 98 minutes.

2. 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.

3. Schoolmaster is an anagram of ‘the classroom.’


4. ‘Go.’ is the shortest complete sentence in the language.


5. In medieval Europe, a moment was precisely 1/40th of an hour, or 90 seconds.


6. One in eight of all the letters written in English is ‘e’.


7. In written English, only one letter in every 510 is a Q.


8. Quartzy is the highest scoring word in the game of Scrabble.


9. ‘CHECKBOOK’ is the longest horizontally symmetrical word in the English language.


10. More English words begin with the letter “s” than with any other letter.


11. ‘Queueing’ is the only word with five consecutive vowels.


12. The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is ‘rhythm’.


13. The shortest -ology is oology, the scientific study of eggs.


14. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is ‘uncopyrightable’.

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