Hi, again. I was searching for my new English books and I found interesting facts about this language and I'd like to share it here. So, here they are :)
- Challenge your friends ! Ask them to find rhyming words for any of these five words - Orange,Month,Silver, Angel & Bulb ! You will be surprised to try that these five words don't have any rhyming word !
- Do you know that if you really get excited on finding new words,learn this special word for youself ! The word is logophile.It means "lover of words"
- The word 'swims' when turned upside down will still look like same i.e.'swims'.
- The sentence 'Are you as bored as I am ' can be read backwards and would still make sense!
- Now test your friends, ask them to say ‘the sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick’.It is known to be the toughest tongue –twister in English language.
- Do you know a funny fact about the word 'listen'? It contains the same letters as the word 'silent'!
- Do you know there used to be a word in the dictionary (from 1932 to 1940), which did not have any meaning? The word was ‘Dord’.It happened due to some error, this word was later known as Ghost word.
- Do you know that there are few words in English language, which only exist in plural form? Here are few –glasses, scissors, trousers, jeans, pants etc.
- Going into history of dictionaries, would like to tell that first English dictionary was printed in 1755.
- Here is one interesting fact about a word 'Bookkeeper'.It is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters!
- Do you know that the adjective most often used to qualify the noun 'heart' is 'broken'
Comments
Anah Sid ©, i'll try to find some other interesting language facts and present it here :))
femina, thanks for answering)
sugeng, thanks for answering:)
Luci, it made me too :)))
Interesting and pretty informative!
Thank you for sharing Honey... it's so great
Mishaikh,
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