1. The document provides 10 interesting facts about the English language. 2. The shortest complete sentence consists of one word, "Go", and the oldest word is "Town". 3. Some unusual word combinations and pronunciations are highlighted, such as words containing "ough" pronounced in 9 ways and long words like "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis".

1. S P R I N G 2 0 1 3
10 interesting facts about English language
By Atia Mahmood
Lingo Mingo
Let's face it. J
English is a strange
language.
There is no egg in the
eggplant,
No ham in the
hamburger,
STOP! Don’t read it please. And neither pine nor
apple in the pineapple.
10. The shortest complete sentence in the English
language consists of only one word and that is “Go”. English muffins were
9. The oldest word in the English language is “Town”. not invented in
8. In England, till 1880s using the word “pants” was England.
considered indecent. French fries were not
7. The word “goodbye” came from “God bye”, which in invented in France.
turn comes from “God be with you”. The phrase “so long”
came from the Arabic word “salaam” and also from the
Hebrew word “shalom”.
Did you know? Did you know?
The word "NEWS" came from the first The dot on top of
letters of the words North, East, West the letter 'i' is
and South. This was because called a tittle.
information was being gathered from
all different directions.

2. THE LOREM IPSUMS SPRING 2016
Jeffery Eugenides, The marriage plot
“She'd become an English major for the
purest and dullest of reasons: because
she loved to read.”
Remaining Facts:
6. According to the Oxford English Dictionary,
the longest word in the English language is
“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis”.
The only other word with so many letters is its
plural,
“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses.
5. The word with most number of definitions in
the English language is “set”.
4. There is a seven-letter word in the
English language that contains ten words
without rearranging any of its letters, and
that seven-letter word is, “therein”, which
contains: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here,
ere, therein, herein.
3. The combination “ough” can be
pronounced in nine different ways. The
following sentence 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.”
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3. THE LOREM IPSUMS SPRING 2016
“The nine most terrifying
words in the English
language are, ‘I’m from
the government and I’m
here to help.’” Ronald
Reagan
2. There are six words in the 1. There are
English language, which have the no words that
letter combination ‘uu’. They are could rhyme with
“muumuu”, which means a long the words, orange, purple,
loose-fitting dress, “vacuum”, silver, or month.
“continuum”, “duumvirate”, which
is an alliance between two equally
powerful political or military
leaders, “duumvir”, which is a
rule by two people and
“residuum”, which means
remainder. There are only four
words in the English language
that end in “-dous”. They are:
tremendous, horrendous, How did you find this
stupendous, and hazardous.
There are three words in the piece of writing?
English language that end in
“-ceed”: proceed, exceed, and Good or Bad?
succeed. The only two meaningful
words that end in “-gry” in the Caution!
English language are: “angry”
and “hungry”. Your answer defines
YOU…
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