WHAT’S WHAT some fun English Language information?

WHAT’S WHAT some fun English Language information?

• ‘E’ is the most commonly used letter alphabet
• ‘Q’ is the least used letter of the alphabet
• ‘Town’ is the world’s oldest word
• The top dot on the ‘i’ is called a tittle
• ‘Testify’ comes from the word ‘testicle’ when used to swear on it in court
• The first English dictionary was written in 1755
• All pilot on international flights identify themselves in English, regardless where they come from
• ‘Almost’ is the longest English word with the letters in alphabetical order
• The most commonly word used is ‘I’
• The English language is a West-Germanic Language
• English is one of the most spoken languages in the entire world. An estimated 1.5 billion people would speak English as their first of second language. Though Chinese is the most spoken native language in the world.
• English is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. The other languages are French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese Mandarin.
• The Oxford English Dictionary contains over 250.000 different words
• English incorporates words from different languages such as French, Old Norse and Dutch.