Презентация «Interesting things about English”. Дополнительный материал

INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The most popular language in the world — Chinese

English language is only on the 3rd place (700 millions people who speak it, or learn it)
FACT №1

FACT №2
English language has almost 1,000,000 words!
Pretty impressively. Russian has only 200,000 words.

FACT №3
The shortest sentence you can make has 3 letters
«I do.»
«I am.»

FACT №4
The longest word in English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
That's the name of disease

FACT №5
Word «Set» has the biggest number of meanings
44 as verb
17 as noun
7 as adjective
And a lot of other meanings

FACT №6
Word «town» is the oldest one
Also «bad», «gold» and «apple»

FACT №7
Elder greeting «God be with you» has become shorter with age. And now it is just «goodbye»

FACT №8
You can't find rhyme for only 4 words
«Month», «orange», «silver», «purple».

FACT №9
If you want to test yourself, try to say the hardest english patter
«The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick»

FACT №10
Symbol «&» used to be in the English alphabet.
But it's not a letter anymore.
The name of this symbol is «Ampersand»

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