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Did you know that 90 percent of everything written in English uses just 1,000 words?
Compared to other languages, English may seem simple, but that is probably because most people don’t realize it is full of strange facts.
There are ten interesting facts about the English language on should know:
1) The longest common English word without vowels is “rhythms”.
2) A new word in English is created every 98 minutes.
3) “Time” is the most commonly used noun in English.
4) There are more English words beginning with the letter “s” than with any other letter.
5) The day after tomorrow is called “Overmorrow.”
6) The word “OK” originated in 1839 when a newspaper used it as a funny abbreviation of “oll korrect.”
7) Charles Boycott, an English land agent, was so hated by the community he became a verb.
8) “Goodbye” is a contraction of “God be with ye.”
9) There’s a synonym for the word synonym it’s poecilonym.
10) Yawning and stretching at the same time is called “pandiculating.”
