Useless Facts about Language & Words (Part 1) / Language

• "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• No word in the English language rhymes with "month", "orange", "silver" or "purple".
• The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
• 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.
• There are only three words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum and continuum.
• The combination -ough- can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed".
• There are only 4 words in the English language which end in -dous: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• The words "racecar", "kayak" and "level" are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

 
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