11.On average, one new word is added in English every two hours and about 4000 new words are added to the English dictionary every year.
12.There are words in English whose form is always plural, such as glasses (spectacles), binoculars, scissors, shears, tongs, gallows, trousers, jeans, pants, pajamas, (provided that the word cloting becomes singular ( singular) when we use it as a modifier, as in “trouser pocket).
13.The present-day English accent first appeared among upper-class Londoners during the American Revolution. Previously, the British English accent was the same as American English. 14. The letter “E” is a letter that is often used in English. As it turns out, one in eight of all the letters written in English is the letter “e”
15.There was no word for the color orange in English until about 450 years ago. In the past, the orange color was called “geoluhread” which means reddish yellow in Old English.
16.English is a crazy language. Why crazy? Because there is no Egg in eggplant; no ham (pork) in the hamburger; there is no apple or pine in a pinneapple; English muffins don't exist in England; quicksand works slowly; boxing ring (boxing ring) in fact the shape of a box (he said ring = ring); if vegetarians are people who eat vegetables then what do humanitarians eat? (does he eat humans?)
17.A word formed by combining two words is called a “blend” (“portmanteau word”). Many new words enter the English language this way. For example the word “brunch” (from the word breakfast + lunch); “motel” (motorcat + hotel); and "guesstimate" (guess + estimate), provided that the word blend is not the same as a combined noun, such as website, blackboard, and darkroom.
18.There are words in English whose form is always plural, such as glasses (spectacles), binoculars, scissors, shears, tongs, gallows, trousers, jeans, pants, pajamas, (provided that the word cloting becomes singular ( singular) when we use it as a modifier, as in “trouser pocket).
19.The word “OK” dates back to 1839 when newspapers used it as a humorous shorthand for “oll korrect”.
20. 80% of all paragraphs written in English contain the word “the”.
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