English is the most popular language in the world. English alphabet consists of 26 alphabets. They can be written in lower and upper-case. English alphabet originated from Latin script in the 7th century.
33 Interesting English Alphabet Facts
- The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E.
- The least commonly used letter in the alphabet is Z.
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet is quite famous. If you want even shorter one; it is "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs".
- One out of every eight letters written is an e.
- The dot over the letter i is called title.
- The most common word in English is THE.
- The English word "alphabet" comes from the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta.
- The longest word in English which doesn't use the letter "E" is floccinaucinihilipilification.
- "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" is the longest word of English. It has total 45 letters.
- The alphabet "S" is used as the first letter of most of the words.
- "Uncopyrightable" is the longest word of English language which has no repeatable letters.
- Did You that "Pronunciation" word is the most mispronounced word in English language.
- World's all pilot speak English language on international flights, doesn't matter from which country they come.
- "I am" is a complete sentence in English language.
- Approximately a new word is added to English dictionary in every 2 hours and in a year around 4000 new words are added.
- About 100 languages worldwide use the same English alphabet, which makes it one of the most used alphabets.
- "Z" may be the last letter in English alphabet but the last letter added to English alphabets was "J".
- Swims will be Swims even when overturned. Such words are called ambigrams.
- There are only two words ending with "gry"; they are angry and hungry.
- More than 80% of the data stored in the computers across the world is stored in English.
- The oldest words in English are I and We.
- No numbers from 0 to 999 contains the alphabet A.
- "Go!" is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English.
- One fourth of the world's population speaks at least some English.
- The most common adjective used in English is "good".
- The word "lol" was added to the Oxford English dictionary in 2011.
- Shakespeare added over 1,000 words to the English language.
- Most English words come from French or Old English.
- English used to have 29 alphabets instead of the current 26.
- "I" is the best letter in English Alphabet.
- Letter "V" is considered ugliest letter in English Alphabet.
- English alphabets are used in other languages such as Polish, French, Spanish, Igbo, Hungarian, Czech, Esperanto, Vietnamese and Tagalog.
- The most commonly used noun is "time".
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