The number of people speaking English language is 1.3 billion in the world. In such a situation, there are some such facts of this language, about which you should know.
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There is a very famous dialogue in a Bollywood film, ‘English is a very funny language’. This line is meant to encourage those people who are not native speakers of English. This means that their mother tongue is not English. However, with the spread of this language across the world, the number of people speaking it also increased. Today more than 1.3 billion people in the world English they speak. This is more than 15 percent of the world’s population. Apart from this, there are also people who speak in broken but English.
This is the reason that there are some facts of the English language, about which most of the people do not know. These facts are such that you will be surprised to know. In such a situation, let us know about such facts.
- Today we all know that there are 26 alphabets in English. But at one time there was also 27th alphabet in English. According to Dictionary.com, & was the 27th word in the English alphabet until the early 19th century. But then it was removed.
- There is a saying, English is the sky language. Even if it sounds very strange to hear. But it simply means that English is the language used by the pilots. Pilots use this language to communicate with Air Traffic Controllers (ATC).
- Sentences using all the letters of the English alphabet are called panagrams. Panagrams are very rare. It is usually used during wordplay. The biggest example of panagram is ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’.
- As a poet, dramatist and writer, William Shakespeare has had a great influence on the English language. It is believed that he played an important role in adding thousands of words to the English language.
- The longest word in English is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. There are 45 letters in this word. The term refers to pneumoconiosis caused by breathing in very fine silicate or quartz dust.
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