Interesting English Facts

In any English word that has the letter "q" in the beginning or middle, there will always be a "u" after it.


"Dreamt" is the only word in English that ends with "mt". No other word in English does.


"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with "und".


There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


According to the Oxford Dictionary, the longest word in the English language is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," which is a type of lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica particles.


"Therein" is a word in the English language from which ten words can be formed: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.


The longest meaningful word that can be typed using only the left hand on a keyboard is "stewardesses."


The word "OK" is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, and it originated from a misspelling of "all correct" by American President Andrew Jackson, who wrote it as "oll korrect."


If you write the names of the world's continents in English, you will notice that every name begins and ends with the same letter, except for North and South America.


The word "typewriter" is the longest word you can type using only the letters on the top row of a keyboard.


The phrase "goodbye" comes from the original phrase "God be with you."