Fun Facts About English

Part 1

1.Every two hours, a new word is inserted into the dictionary.

2.Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, the longest word in English.

3.The word "I" is used the most in English.

4.There are more than 380 synonyms for the word "good."

5.Even if the last four letters are dropped, the word "queue" still sounds the same.

6.There is no synonym for the term "synonym."

7.English has "ghost words" that are meaningless.

8.If you were to write out all the numbers, the word "billion" would be the last word to begin with the letter "b."

9.Shakespeare helped the English language gain more than 1000 new words.

10.Around the world, 952 million people speak English.