10 Word Facts That Will Wow You
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English is like a big stew of words from lots of other languages and it's constantly evolving and changing. Do you know that a new word is added to the dictionary every two hours. Can you make one sentence using all the 26 letters? Do you know any words that spell the same even backwards? Impress your friends (or more likely lose friends, lol) with these ten English word facts!
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10 Word Facts That Will Wow You
1. The covering at the end of a shoelace is called an aglet.
2. Angry and hungry are the only English words that end in -gry.
3. A goat’s beard is called a goatee.
4. India has 23 official languages.
5. The pacific Ocean’s name comes from the Latin Mare Pacificum, which means “peaceful Sea”.
6. Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13.
7. Cats communicate using at least 16 known “cat words”.
8. A palindrome is a word that’s spelled the same backward as forward, such as noon, kayak, and race car.
9. Sign language is not a universal language – each country has its own sign language, and vocabulary and grammar vary by region.
10. A sentence that uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet is called a pangram. A famous pangram example is: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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