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1."The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet.

2. The expression "cute aggression" is translated as "aggressive emotion" or "violent


emotion". It describes the feeling when you want to "strangle in your arms" and "kiss to
death" someone very cute.

3.The combination “ough” can be pronounced in 10 different ways


A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of
Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed

4.If you wrote out all the numbers (i.e. one, two, three…), you would not use the letter “b”
until the word “billion.”
You can also spell every number up to “1000” without using the letter “a.”

5.Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (*breath*) is NOT the longest word in English.


Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling
ash and dust. Go ahead and try pronouncing that!

6.Approximately one new word is added to the English language every two hours and
around 4,000 new words are added to the English dictionary every year.

7. He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas.

This sentence has seven words with the vowel sound /i:/. There are seven ways in English to
spell the /i:/ sound – yes, seven! You will hear more about the oddities of English spelling in
a minute.

8.when you want to say "the sat after tomorrow",we say "the sat after tomorrow". But there is
actually a word, one word for it which is "overmorrow"

9. More people in the world have learned English as their second language than there are
native English speakers

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