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number 25 in 1934 Webster's accidentally
added a made-up word to the dictionary
doored it wasn't caught until five years
later number 24
Ernest Vincent Wright's book Gadsby
Aleppo Graham novel is roughly fifty
thousand words long
none of them contain the letter e number
twenty-three drempt is the only word in
the English language that ends in MT
number 22
while most people believe that no
English word rhymes with orange that is
not true
sporran jiz a rare botanical term
referring to a part of a fern number 21
the longest one syllable word is
scrunched with ten letters it can be
found in a 17th century translation of
don quixote number 20 words typically
will be in use for anywhere between
1,000 and 20,000 years number 19 the
oldest word in English is who which has
been around for you guessed it 20,000
years number 18 the words 2 3 and I are
pretty old as well number 17 English
contains the most words out of any
language and the Oxford English corpus
contains a little over two billion words
yes billion number 16 you probably only
know about fifty thousand of them number
15 it's been estimated that a new word
is created every 98 minutes
number 14 this works out to about 4,000
words per year being added to official
dictionaries number 13 about one-fourth
of all the countries on earth have
English as an official language number
12 the dot above the I and J is called
the tittle number 11 the word drunk is
in the Guinness Book of World Records
for having the most synonyms at two
thousand nine hundred and sixty-four
number ten the longest word in English
with all its letters in alphabetical
order is aegilops almost is actually not
far behind it number nine the b2 of and
a in that have and I make up 25 percent
of the words you use number eight angry
and hungry are the only two words in
modern English that end with gry
number seven the shortest complete
sentence in the English language is I am
number six the following sentence
demonstrates all nine ways that oh ugh
can be pronounced a rough coded
doughface thoughtful plow man strode
through the streets of Scarborough after
falling into a sloth he coughed and
hiccup
number five the longest English word
without a true vowel is rhythm number
four the following sentence contains
seven identical words in a row and still
makes sense it is true for all that that
that that that that that refers to is
not the same that that that that refers
to number three the word alphabet comes
from the first two letters of the Greek
alphabet alpha and beta number two a
sentence that contains all 26 letters of
the alphabet is called a pan gram and
number one the following sentence
contains all 26 letters of the alphabet
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
dog it is often used to test typewriters
or keyboards
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