Tuesday 26 July 2016

Some Mind-Blowing facts about English language

  1. The most commonly used English:-
    Noun is “Time
    Preposition is “To
    Verb is “Be
    Adjective is “Good
  2. Flammable and Inflammable are synonyms.
  3. Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright written as a lipogram, which does not include words that contain the letter "e".
  4. The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.
  5. Pangram sentence is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once.
    eg. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
  6. Anagram is a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another.
    Schoolmaster is an anagram of the classroom.
    Have a nice day! is an anagram of Have a cyanide!
    Mother-in-Law is an anagram of Woman Hitler
    Eleven plus Two is an anagram of Twelve plus One
    New York Times is an anagram of of Monkeys write
    The countryside 
    is an anagram of No city dust here
  7. palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters whichreads the same backward or forward.
    Was it a car or a cat I saw
    Do geese see God?
    Never odd or even
  8. Pronunciation’ is the word which is most mispronounced in the English language!
  9. The word oxymoron itself is an oxymoron. The Greek word "oxy" means "sharp" and "moron" means "dull.
  10. The opposite of Déjà vu is called Jamais vu. It's a French word meaning “never seen”. It's the feeling or experience that a person knows or recognizes a situation, but that it still seems very unfamiliar or unknown.
  11. English is the official language of the sky! It doesn’t matter which country they are from, all pilots speak in English on international flights.
  12. There are more English words beginning with the letter 's' than with any other letter. (This is mainly because clusters such as 'sc', 'sh', 'sp', and 'st' act almost like independent letters.) The letter 'e' only comes about halfway down the order, and the letter 'x' unsurprisingly comes last.
  13. The word "mortgage"comes from a French word that means "Death Contract".
  14. An ambigram is a word or words that can be read in more than one direction, where the word reads the same when upside down or turn over to form an entirely new word.
    Eg. SWIMS
    Below is an Ambigram logo.

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