[ Some amazing information about English language ]

• ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’.

• ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

• ‘Underground’ is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters ‘und.’

• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning ‘containing arsenic.’

• Los Angeles’s full name is ‘El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula’ and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,’L.A.’

• The combination ‘ough’ can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: ‘A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.’

• The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.

• The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is ‘screeched.’

• The longest place-name still in use

Traumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.

• The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis; The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

• The symbol on the ‘pound’ key (#) is called an octothorpe.

• The word ‘Checkmate’ in chess comes from the Persian phrase ‘Shah Mat,’ which means ‘the king is dead.’

• The word ‘set’ has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

• There are only four words in the English language which end in’-dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

• There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, ‘therein’: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.