Little secrets of English
- October 4th, 2011
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※ The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only one word and that is “Go”.
※ The oldest word in the English language is “town”.
※ In England, till 1880s using the word “pants” was considered indecent.
※ The word “goodbye” came from “God bye”, which in turn comes from “God be with you”.
※ 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”.
※ The word with most number of definitions in the English language is “set”.
※ 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.
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