Amazing English LanguageFacts

	The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
	No word in the English language rhymes with month.
	"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
	The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
	The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.
	The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
	"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
	There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
	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.
	There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
	Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.
	The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
	When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
	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, here, ere, therein, herein.
	No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.
	The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
	"Strengths" is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
	"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
	One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is "typewriter."
	The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."
	"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
	The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
	The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."