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Interesting Facts on English Language
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order.

"One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... Bookkeeper

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains nine words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, herein.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched".

The letter most in use in the English language is "E" and the letter "Q" is least used.

Out of all the eight letter words in the English language, only one has only one vowel in it: "strength"

Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."

Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.

Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, it’s

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