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Arqam Tabani
Arqam Tabani

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".

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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.
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.” 2
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… 3

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English Language Newsletter

  • 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.” 2
  • 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… 3