Interesting Facts About English
The most common letter in English is "e".
The most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".
Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".
The word "bookkeeper" is the only unhyphenated English word with 3 consecutive repeated letters. Words such as "cross-section" and "bee-eater" normally require a hyphen to be r
eadily readable.
More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.
A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a "pangram".
The following sentence contains all 26 letters of the alphabet: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards.
The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta.
The dot over the letter "i" and the letter "j" is called a "superscript dot".
If we place a comma before the word "and" at the end of a list, this is known as an "Oxford comma" or a "serial comma". For example: "I drink coffee, tea, and wine."
The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning "the king is helpless".
The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm".
The only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth. The others are, in order from the Sun, Mercury, Venus, [Earth,] Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
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.
The most common letter in English is "e".
The most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".
Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".
The word "bookkeeper" is the only unhyphenated English word with 3 consecutive repeated letters. Words such as "cross-section" and "bee-eater" normally require a hyphen to be r
eadily readable.
More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.
A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a "pangram".
The following sentence contains all 26 letters of the alphabet: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards.
The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta.
The dot over the letter "i" and the letter "j" is called a "superscript dot".
If we place a comma before the word "and" at the end of a list, this is known as an "Oxford comma" or a "serial comma". For example: "I drink coffee, tea, and wine."
The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning "the king is helpless".
The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm".
The only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth. The others are, in order from the Sun, Mercury, Venus, [Earth,] Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
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.
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The most common letter in English is "e".
The most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".
Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".
The word "bookkeeper" is the only unhyphenated English word with 3 consecutive repeated letters. Words such as "cross-section" and "bee-eater" normally require a hyphen to be r
eadily readable.
More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.
A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a "pangram".
The following sentence contains all 26 letters of the alphabet: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards.
The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta.
The dot over the letter "i" and the letter "j" is called a "superscript dot".
If we place a comma before the word "and" at the end of a list, this is known as an "Oxford comma" or a "serial comma". For example: "I drink coffee, tea, and wine."
The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning "the king is helpless".
The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm".
The only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth. The others are, in order from the Sun, Mercury, Venus, [Earth,] Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
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.](https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/c0.0.232.232/p403x403/400243_444315028937630_894101931_n.jpg)
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