Random facts about the English language

A new word is added to the dictionary every two hours.

The word 'verb' is actually a noun.

There are 1,35 billion people who speak English as their first language.

'We' is the shortest, oldest and most commonly used word in English.

A sentence that contains every letter in the language is called a ...

English is an official language in Nigeria.

Words like 'actually', 'like', 'literally' are called...

“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The Normans often spoke in Latin.

'Overmorrow' means the day after tomorrow in English.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is the longest word in English

More people speak Mandarin Chinese as their first language than English

Here is a cute English potato for your hard work

Swims will be swims even when turned upside down.

British people went to live in South Africa in the nineteenth century.

New techlologies mean that people don't have to learn foreign languages.

Girls used to mean ...

All pilots have to speak in English while flying, no matter what their their origin is.

There is no word that rhymes with 'orange'

Some words have appeared in the dictionary because of printing errors and have no meaning.