What do you know about English besides the fact that it is the most popular in the world?
- By the way, this is not the case. Today, English is the third most widely spoken in the world, and will soon be in fourth - overtaken by Hindi.
- " & " Is an ampersand. It stands for the letter "and" and used to be a letter of the alphabet.
- The difference between British English and American is great, and this fact is not exaggerated. For example, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter saga has been translated from English into American.
- There are twice as many words in English as in Russian: 1 million versus 500 thousand. His "poor" status is unfair.
- Punctuation marks are rarely used in English. Until the 15th century, they did not exist at all, but today we do it by analogy with the Russian.
- Shakespeare and Pushkin are brothers. Not by blood (lift your jaws off the floor), but by function: both are legendary and each brought many new words to their language.
- In English, gender-neutral terms have appeared that claim to supplant the familiar he and she. These are ze and hir .
- In all languages of the world, pineapple is pineapple (something like ananas), and only in English it is pineapple .
- The most common word in the English language is good .
- In English there is a word in which one vowel is repeated 6 times - indivisibility (unity).
- The most ambiguous word in English is set , which has 44 interpretations.
- In the English language, there is a ghost word that existed from 1932 to 1940 due to a typographical error. This word is dord , it has no meaning.
- Hardest tongue twister in English: The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
- The shortest English sentences containing subject and predicate are I am and I do .
- The word drunk has 2241 synonyms. They also say that Russians drink a lot!
