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1 billion people speak English. That's 1 in every 7 on earth.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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80% of information stored on all computers in the world is in English.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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English words "I", "we", "two" and "three" are amongthe most ancient, from thousands of years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The longestcommon English wordwithout vowelsis "rhythms".♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A new word in English is created every 98 minutes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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89%of people in Sweden speak English.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "bride" comes from an old proto-germanic word meaning "to cook".♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "queue" is pronounced the same way when the last 4 letters are removed.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "mortgage" comes from a French word that means "death contract".♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The concept behind the word "cool" might come from the African word "itutu", brought to America by slavery.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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90% of everything written in English uses just 1,000 words.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Time"is the mostcommonly used nounin English.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There are more English words beginning with the letter "s" than with any other letter.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Screechedis the longest English word with one syllable.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There are 24 different dialects of English in the US.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Until the 19th century, the English word for actors was "hypocrites."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The shortestcomplete sentence inthe English languageis "Go".♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Phrases in English such as "long time no see", "no go", and "no can do" come from literal translations of Chinese phrases.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"LOL" was formally recognized in 2011's update of the Oxford English Dictionary.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"IRONIC"is the most commonlymisused word in Englishsays Dictionary.com.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The dayafter tomorrowis called"Overmorrow."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Today's British accent first appeared among London's upper class around the time of the American Revolution. Before that, the British accent was similar to that of Americans.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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80%of all written paragraphs in English feature the word "the."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Bald Eagles are so named because "balde" is an Old English word meaning "white."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Harry Potter books were translated from British to American English.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The verb "unfriend" dates back to 1659. It existed even earlier as a noun, as far back as 1275.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Understanding English actually hurts professional players of English scrabble. Some of the world's best Scrabble players are Thai and can't speak English.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The words 'idiot,' 'imbecile,' and 'moron' were originally medical categories for intellectual disability.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Dr. Seuss was the first to publish the word "nerd."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The phrase ‘Time Person of the Year' contains the first, second and third most commonly used nouns in English, in order.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Hello" didn't become a greeting until the telephone arrived.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Dreamt" and its derivatives are the only common English words that end in "mt."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Only one word in all of English has an X, Y, and Z in order: "Hydroxyzine."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The only English word with three "Y" is "syzygy," which happens to describe the alignment of 3 celestial bodies in a straight line.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "OK" originated in 1839 when a newspaper used it as a funny abbreviation of "oll korrect."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The English word "Callipygian" means having a beautiful ass.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The sole term in English to begin with "tm" is "Tmesis," the insertion of words between a compound phrase, as in "what-so-ever" inserted in the middle of "whatever."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Muscle comes from the Latin musculus, which means "little mouse," because a flexed muscle was thought to resemble a mouse.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Police police Police police police police Police police." is a valid sentence, since "police" is both a noun and a verb.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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By the age of 20, a native English-speaking American knows 42,000 dictionary words.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The chemical name for titin, the world's largest known protein, is 189,819 letters long.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word ambisinistrous is the opposite of ambidextrous; it means ‘no good with either hand'.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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‘Bitch the pot' was 19th-century slang for ‘pour the tea'.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Rhinorrhea" is the medical condition otherwise known as a "runny nose."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "rooster" was favored in the U.S. as a puritan alternative to "cock" after it had acquired the secondary sense "penis."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Noah Webster learned 26 languages, including Anglo-Saxon and Sanskrit, in the process of writing "An American Dictionary of the English Language."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Charles Boycott, an English land agent, was so hated by the community he became a verb.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Goodbye" is a contraction of "God be with ye."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The phrase 'crocodile tears' refers to a medieval belief that crocodiles shed tears of sadness when killing and consuming their prey.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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September is the ninth month and the only month with the same number of letters in its name in English as the number of the month.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Horse-eating is called Hippophagy.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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'Flabbergasted' was first recorded in a 1772 list of new words alongside 'bored'.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The names of the English rivers Avon, Axe, Esk, Exe and Ouse all mean ‘river' or ‘water' in various ancient languages.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The average active vocabulary of an adult English speaker is of around 20,000 words.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The term "Hippie" is derived from the term "Hipster," which described jazz fans in the 1940's. Hipsters were known for pot smoking and sarcasm.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "Britain" is derived from "Pretain" meaning "painted", originally because the Britons had tattoos.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The term "sniper" comes from how hard it is to shoot the snipe bird.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Jesus' name translated from Hebrew to English would be 'Joshua'. We get the name 'Jesus' by translating the Hebrew name to Greek to Latin to English.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Yawning and stretching at the same time is called "pandiculating."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The 1989 article that proposed the acronym LOL also suggested using ‘H' to mean ‘Huh?'♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "profane" comes from the Latin "profanus," meaning "outside the temple".♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The old word for a kiss on the hand is "baisemain."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "quickie", which has sexual connotations today, began as a 1920s term for a film produced over the course of a mere two weeks.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "cleavage" comes from geology. It refers to a separation between rocks or crystals. American movie censors adopted the term as a euphemism in 1940s.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Mouse potato" is someone who spends a lot of time at a computer.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There's a synonymfor the wordsynonymit's poecilonym.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Kentish Fire" is a prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Data scientists analyzed 10,222 words to discover the "happiest" word in the English language. It's "laughter."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Wasp used to be "waps," while bird used to be "brid" and horse used to be "hros." Pronunciation errors made the English language what it is today.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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English has 3,000 words for being drunk.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The term “checkmate” comes from the Arabic and ultimately Persian phrase “shah mat” which means “the king is dead.”♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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‘Cheesy' originally meant ‘excellent'.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A "flibbertigibbet" is a frivolous and flighty person who is excessively talkative.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "White" comes from the Indo-European root kweit meaning "to shine."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Euouae" is the longest word in the English language which is made up of nothing but vowels.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Whatever" is the most annoying word, a U.S. poll found in 2016 for the eight year in a row.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The average English-speaker has about 50,000 words in their mind and finds the right one in 600 milliseconds.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Bird" was originally spelled "brid."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word ‘hundred' derives from ‘hundra' in Old Norse, which originally meant 120.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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‘Bumpsy' is 17th-century slang for ‘drunk'.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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770,000 people living in England cannot speak English well.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Latin had about 800 obscene words; English has only about 20.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
