Saturday, November 24, 2018

English is weird, right?


English is weird, right?


A Pangram is a sentence which contains all the 26 letters.

For example, Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

And the most famous one: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.


The shortest and the oldest word in English is “I”.


The longest word in English is

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

It is a name of a lungs disease which is caused by inhaling dust or silica particles.


If you want to improve your vocabulary, read fiction. Because fictions use wider imagery and imagination, thus using a wide range of words.



Shakespeare invented 1,700 English words. Yup! This famous writer made up a lot of words. Addiction, belongings, cold-hearted etc. are some of the examples.


Hydroxyzine is an only English word which contains x, y, z in a sequence. It is the name of a medicine to prevent sneezing.


Over morrow is an actual word for the day after tomorrow.


Queue, means to stand in a line, so in this word “Queue” ueue are the letters standing in a queue which is not needed in fact. Because if you remove them, the word is going to pronounce the same.


Synonym is a word that does not have a synonym for itself.


The word that is most Misused word is “ironic” in English. It is used for comedy or 
sarcastic purpose, but actually it means when something opposite to expectations happens and causes amusement.


Sparkle’s antonym is darkle.


Good-bye is another form of God be with ye.

Crutch words are those words that add no meaning or value to what we say and these 
are actually, basically etc.


The longest word without repeating any letter is uncopyrightable.


This little dot at the top of i and j is called Tittle.


There is No b until billion in English counting.

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