Amazing Facts of Language and Literature

Language & Literature
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Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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E is the most frequently used letter in English.
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Gadsby is the only novel (267 pages, 50,000 words) written in 1939 by Ernest Vincent Wright, without the use of letter "E".
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Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter; by Mark Twain in 1876.
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Uncopyrightable is the only 15-letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter.
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The word Set has 464 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. The word Run runs a distant second, with 396.
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The dot over the i or j is called a tittle.
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The word queue is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the whole for its first letter.
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The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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Mandarin is most-spoken language in the world, spoken by 1.07 billion people, followed by English, spoken by 514 million.
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Papua New Guinea have the greatest number of first languages. There are 869 separate languages - not dialects.
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The world's first university was established in Taxila (comprised of cities Mohenjadaro and Harappa) Pakistan in 700 BC.
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There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar; Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
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The only three English words beginning with dw are; Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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There are currently 6,912 living languages, defined as languages that people speak today.
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Letters 'a', ' b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)
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Letters 'a', ' b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)
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Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' only comes for the first time in Billion)
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Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting