You would literally need to sit down and write out every number from 1 – 1Billion before you came across a number that contains the letter ‘B’. Can you imagine trying to do that? It might take you some days! Let us know how you get on.
All pilots are required to speak English. Although English is the 3rd most spoken language in the world, all pilots are required to speak as it is the most frequently used to communicate. So if you are English and travelling from another country, there will be at least one person on board your flight who you can be sure will understand you!.
The words comb, womb and bomb don’t rhyme! But they look like they should! This is so weird but true.
The word ‘Inflammable’ actually means ‘flammable’ – confused yet? We are. There are many confusing things about the English language.
The word ‘Typewriter’s is the longest word you can actually create using only the top set of characters on the keyboard (but that is not why they call it that, just in case you wondered!)
The word ‘Malaria’ comes from the Latin meaning of ‘bad air’. Malaria was originally caused by mosquitos! There are many other words also that contain words derived from Latin.
The longest word with no vowels is ‘rhythms’, and some words actually have more ‘rhythm’ to them as others depending on the number of syllables used!
The word ‘silent’ actually contains the exact same letter s as ‘listen’ – is this just a mere coincidence? Possibly. But we will stay silent on that one.
‘I am’ is the shortest sentence you could possibly make in the English language!
There were typos in the early English dictionaries that became known as ‘ghost words’ – word such as ‘dord’ that doesn’t actually mean anything. If it did, what would the word ‘dord’ mean? Comment on our post with your answers and let’s see whose paying attention!.
Almost 4,000 words are added to the English dictionary every year! That is roughly a word every two hours! So once you have watched just one game of Football, you can almost guarantee that a new word will be added shortly.
The word ‘swims’ will spell the same word even if you turned it upside down! Go on try it!!
This one is a bit of a shocker, the word ‘girl’ actually used to mean ‘small child’ regardless of the gender. That has to be the most surprising of all the facts in our article!
The words ‘I’, ‘we’ and ‘three’ are the oldest words of the English language according to historians. ‘I’ is also the most commonly used word.
Words that add no meaning to the sentence you are saying are often said and they are called ‘crutch words’. Two good examples of these words are ‘honestly’ and ‘basically’. In fact, if you think about using these words is actually a complete waste of breath.
