CURIOSITIES ABOUT ENGLISH
Habías pensado alguna vez ¿Cuál es la palabra más larga en inglés? ¿y la oración más corta? A continuación vas a encontrar algunas de las curiosidades sobre el inglés que siempre has querido saber aunque nunca lo hayas pensado, y dirás ¿porqué?, pues por que las personas somos curiosas por naturaleza, y unos pocos datos de este tipo nunca están de más. Así pues, te dejo unas cuantas curiosidades sobre la lengua inglesa:
LAS CURIOSIDADES EN:
NUMBERS
How much can you count in English? Have you noticed that the first number that is written with the letter 'a' is ... 'thousand'? Yes, that's right, of all the numbers from 0 to 999, none have the letter 'a' written on it.
LETTERS
Have you ever wondered if you can use all the letters in a sentence that makes sense? Well yes, it can be done, a sentence that contains the 26 letters of the alphabet is a pangram. An example is the sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
All continents begin and end with the same vowel. Be careful! Keep in mind that Oceania is called Australia, since it occupies a large part of the oceanic territory. Also, considering that not everyone divides America into North and South.
Although there are words that do not contain any vowels, the most used letter is ‘e’ and the most used consonant is ‘r’ . Still, the 's' is the letter with which the most words begin, with almost 75000.
WORDS
If you are worried or worried about knowing a lot of vocabulary in English to be able to express yourself without difficulty, you will like to know that a normal person uses about 400 words 80% of the time. The most used is' I '(Yo) , and the shortest complete sentence in English is:' I am '.
In English, we can find some words without vowels like 'sky' or 'fly'. Of all the words without vowels in English, the longest word is: ‘rhythm’.
'Set' is the English word that has the most definitions in Spanish, specifically, there are 25 definitions. To translate it, we will have to pay close attention to the context of the sentence, phrase or text.
The longest word in English is the term used to refer to lung disease caused by silica poisoning, or breathing ash from a volcano. This word is: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
If we do not count the scientific terms , the longest word is: Floccinaucinihilipilification . I challenge you to try to pronounce it!
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