Friday, August 8, 2008

Some Amazing facts about English

1. Widow is the only female form in English that is shorter than its corresponding male term, (Widower)
2. There is only 1 word in English with 3 consecutive sets of double letters, 'Bookkeeper'.
3. There is a word in English with only 1 vowel which occurs 6 times- 'indivisibility'.
4. There is a 7 letter word in English that contains 10 words without rearranging any of its letters. 'therein': the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, herein and therein.
5. There are 2 words in English that have all 5 vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious'.
6. The longest word in English which doesn't contain any vowel is- 'Rhythm'.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Buddy!
Ur Facts bout english are really amazing.I found them really unique on ur blog.Thanks for the work you are doing. I appreciate you for ur precious n valuable efforts towards your blog.
Thanks DUDE! THX A LOT.
Sumit Shekhar (sumit9vs@gmail.com)