- The most common letter in English is "e".
- The most common vowel in English is "e", followed by "a".
- The most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".
- Every syllable in English must have a vowel (sound). Not all syllables have consonants.
- Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".
- 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, bēta.
- The dot over the letter "i" and the letter "j" is called a "superscript dot".
- The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."
- The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm".
- There are only 4 English words in common use ending in "-dous": hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.
- 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 "QWERTY keyboard" gains its name from the fact that its
first 6 letter keys are Q, W, E, R, T and Y. On early typewriters the
keys were arranged in such a way as to minimize the clashing of the
mechanical rods that carried the letters.
- "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
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