Fun Facts Of English Literature
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FUN FACTS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
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3.A new word is added to the dictionary every two hours.
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4.’The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’
has all the letters of English Alphabet
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6. The first book printed in English, in 1475, was The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. by Englishman William Caxton.
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7. The shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is “I.”
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9. Girl used to mean small boy or girl.
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10. The English language is said to be one of the happiest languages in the world – oh, and the word 'happy' is used 3 times more often than the word 'sad'!
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12. Dreamt’ is the only word in the English language to end with ‘mt’.
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13. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
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14. ‘Aloha’ is a Hawaiian word that means both hello and goodbye.
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15. John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem ‘Paradise Lost.’
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16. The longest English word without a vowel is – rhythm.
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17. The only 15 letter word that can be spelt without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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18. There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
19.“FACETIOUS”is the only word that uses all the vowels.
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20.Time is the most commonly used noun.
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