May 15, 2013

Interesting facts about English Language

* On reversing the words they spell the same: “Malayalam”, “Liril” and “Madam”.

* Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

* Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."

* Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.

* No language has more synonyms than English

* "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

* There is only one word in the English language with thee consecutive pairs of double letter.... Bookkeeper.

* Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".

* More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.

* "Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

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