According
to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English.
The officially recognized language is "American."
Widow is the only female form
in the English language
that is shorter than its corresponding
male term (widower).
Victor Hugo's Les Miserable
contains one of the longest
sentences in the French language
823 words without a period.
There is only ONE word in the
English language with THREE
CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE
LETTERS.... Bookkeeper.
There is a word in the English
language with only one vowel,
which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
There is a seven letter word
in the English language that
contains ten words without
rearranging any of its letters,
"therein": the,
there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
There are two words in the
English language that have all five
vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There are thirteen languages
spoken by more than 100 million
people. They are: Mandarin
Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish,
Russian, Arabic, Bengali,
Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French,
Japanese, German,
and Urdu.
There are roughly 6,500 spoken
languages in the world today.
However, about 2,000 of
those languages have fewer than 1,000
speakers. The most
widely spoken language in the world is
MandarinChinese.
There are 885,000,000 people in China that
speak that
language.
There are only two sequences
of four consecutive letters that can be
found in the English
language: "rstu" and "mnop." Examples of
each
are understudy and gynophobia.
There are only 4 words in the
English language which end in "duos":
tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
There are at least two words
in the English language that use all of the vowels,
in
the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously
& facetiously.
There are 41,806 different
spoken languages in the world today.
The word "queue" is
the only word in the English language that is still
pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
The word "honcho" comes
from a Japanese word meaning "squad leader"
and first
came into usage in the English language during the American
occupation of Japan following World War II.
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