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2. Did you know that the shortest sentence in the English language is “I am”? It may seem too simple, but it is grammatically correct and has a subject, verb, and object.
3. Did you know that the word “set” has the most definitions in the English language? The Oxford English Dictionary lists 464 definitions for the word “set”. This includes everything from “to place” to “to adjust” to “to establish”.
4. Did you know that the word “uncopyrightable” is the longest English word without repeating any letters? It means that something cannot be copyrighted.
5. Did you know that “E” is the most commonly used letter in the English language? It appears in one out of every eight letters and is followed by “A”, “R”, “I”, and “O”.
6. Did you know that the word “longest” is actually shorter than the word “short”? Yes, it’s true. “Longest” has 7 letters while “short” has 5 letters.
7. Did you know that the longest palindrome word in the English language is “rotavator”? A palindrome is a word that reads the same backward as forward.
8. Did you know that the word “serendipity” was coined by Horace Walpole? The word was created in 1754 in a letter to a friend. Walpole explained that he had formed the word based on the title of a Persian fairy tale called “The Three Princes of Serendip”.
9. Did you know that the shortest complete sentence in the English language is “Go.”? It is a command and has a subject and a verb.
10 Did you know that the phrase “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram? A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter in the alphabet. It is often used as a typing practice because it includes all the letters.