English Trivia

 🧠 20 English Trivia You Should Know! 

1. The most commonly used word in English is: "the".

2. The shortest complete sentence in English is: "Go." (It has a subject implied: you.)

3. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in "mt".

4. The dot over the letters "i" and "j" is called a tittle.

5. "Queue" is the only word where removing all letters except the first still sounds the same.

6. "Set" has the most definitions of any word in English (over 400!).

7. There are no perfect rhymes in English for "orange", "silver", or "purple".

8. The longest English word without a vowel is: "rhythms".

9. "Aegilops" is the longest English word with letters in alphabetical order.

10. "Uncopyrightable" is a 15-letter word with no repeated letters.

11. The word "bookkeeper" has three consecutive double letters (oo, kk, ee).

12. English borrows heavily from other languages, especially Latin, French, and German.

13. The word "goodbye" comes from the phrase “God be with ye.”

14. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence using a subject and verb.

15. There are more English words beginning with the letter "S" than any other letter.

16. "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" is the longest word in a major dictionary.

17. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a pangram—it contains every letter of the alphabet.

18. "E" is the most frequently used letter in English; "Z" is one of the least.

19. English has over 170,000 current words, but most people use fewer than 20,000 regularly.

20. Shakespeare added over 1,700 words to English, including "bedroom", "lonely", and "fashionable".

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