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True / False.

Interesting facts
about English
1
English is the official language
of 67 countries.
2
There are 28 different dialects
of English in the US.
3 is the shortest
grammatically correct
sentence in English.
Approximately one

4 new word is added to


the dictionary every
two hours.
5
About 5,000 new words
are added to the English
dictionary each year.
Music
6
The most common
adjective used in
English is
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The word “set” has the highest number of
definitions. It has 44 basic verb meanings, 17 noun
meanings, 7 adjective meanings, and several hundred
different variants.
8
The first English
dictionary was
written in 1855.
9
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
is the longest English word which consists of 45
letters. It means a type of lung disease caused by
inhaling ash and dust.
English is the
10 non-official
language of the
air.
Guess the Sport
11
“Girl” used to mean a small
boy.
12 The longest
English word
that can be
spelled without
repeating any letters is
“uncopyrightable”.
13
There are at least 3
words in the English
language that rhymes
with “month”, “orange”,
“silver” or “purple”.
14
The word “goodbye” originally comes from
an old English phrase meaning “God be with
you”.
15
William Shakespeare
added almost 1000 words
that are still used today.
English used to have
16 29 letters instead of
the current 26.

29 26
i ff e r e n t
“A d Le a r n
a g e i s a
lan g u n
n t v i s i o E ng l
d i ff e r e is h
. a nd b
of l i f e ” e
ha p p
y!

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