14 Interesting Facts On The English Language That You Probably Didn’t Know

1. 1 billion people speak English. That’s 1 in every 7 on earth.


2. 80% of information stored on all computers in the world is in English.


3. The Longest common English word without vowels is “Rhythms”.


4. In every 98 minutes a new English word is created.


5. 89% of people in Sweden speak English.


6. The Word “Bride” comes from an old Proto-Germanic word meaning “Too Cook”.


7. The Word “Queue” is pronounced the same way when the last 4 letters are removed.

8. The word “Mortgage” comes from a French word that means “Death Contract”.


9. 90% of everything written in English uses just 1000 words.


10. The dot above a lowercase “i” and “j” is called a “Tittle”.


11. If you write every number name in full (one, two, three, four…), you wouldn’t use a single latter “B” until you reached one billion.


12. As a verb rather than a noun, “Owl” means “to act wisely, despite knowing nothing.”


13. The only two words that end with “-gry” are “Hungry” and “Engry”.


14. The only three words in English language to have 2 consecutive u’s is “Vacuum”, “Residuum”, “Continuum”.