If we talk about English, we will directly thing about language but English not only about language but also there are many things than can we learn about English. Well in this section, we will discuss about interesting things in English. Do you know what are these? Let’s see!
- English is the third most widely used language in the world. The first and second are Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.So, from this statement if you can speak English you are one of cool people in the world because you can be master of the third most widely used in the world. Wow fantastic!
- The second, how many English dialect that you know? Okay, There are 24 different English dialects in the United States. Wow amazing!
- The third, 80% of information stored on computers in the world is English. Can you imagined, you have many benefits if you can speak English.
- Fourth, this is unique thing. Did you know? The shortest and oldest word used in English is “I”
- Fifth, “J” is the youngest letter in English, since it was only added in the 1600s. Have you ever know about it?
- Sixth, The sentence “go” is the shortest perfect sentence in English.
- Seventh, Did you know what is special about this phrase, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. This type of phrase is called “Pangram”, a sentence that uses every letter in English. Wow Great!
- Eighth the longest word in English consists of 45 letters, namely “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”. This type of disease is caused by inhaling ash and sand dust. Nice!!!
- Ninth “Queuing” is the only word with consecutive vowel letters (five vowels in a row). This is the word used when you play hangman.
- The words “bookkeeper” and “bookkeeping” are two words in English that have three double letters in sequence.
So that’s all about interesting things that important to know in English by Inda Nirmalasari,S.Pd.
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