Interesting Facts - New Season - Part 2 | English Wonders

Dear Friends, 

Do you know these amazing facts of English? 

• Initial days, J and Q were not a part of the alphabet and were added only later. 
• 'Oxyphenbutazone' is the highest scoring word in a game of scrabble (approx 1780 pts)
• 'Twyndyllyng' is the longest word in the English language without any vowels it means twins. In this case most common word is 'Rhythm' or 'Rhythms'
• The word 'abstemious' has all the vowels in the alphabetical order. Other such words include abstentious, aerious, arsenious and facetious.
• The only word in English that ends with the letters "-mt" is "dreamt" (which is a variant spelling of "dreamed") - as well of course as "undreamt")
• The English word alphabet comes (via Latin) from the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta.
• The Oldest word in English Language is "Town" - You may have been thinking of more old word used in Old English which are now abandoned. But believe me this word is older than any other word in English.
• "SWIMS" and "NOON" are words that can be flipped backwards and upside down and be spelled the same way. 
• "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"  - You know this is a valid sentence. Read out here

And finally the best one is - 

 "I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting: nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunication' s incomprehensibleness."

Anything peculiar about this one? Look again?

  

I	1
do	2
not	3
know	4
where	5
family	6
doctors	7
acquired	8
illegibly	9
perplexing	10
handwriting	11
nevertheless	12
extraordinary	13
pharmaceutical	14
intellectuality	15
countrebalancing	16
indecipherability	17
transcendantalizes	18
intercommunication's	19
incomprihensibleness	20

Exactly - the above statement is exactly containing the continuous number of characters right from 1-20. 

For more such interesting facts read here : 

English Wonders - 1 | English Wonders - 2 | English Wonders - 3 

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