A Few Facts About Words

• Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, “Gadsby”, which contains over 50,000 words — none of them with the letter E!
• The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am.”
• The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!
• Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
• Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a triple letter.
• The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!
• The sentence “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs” uses every letter of the alphabet and uses the least letters to do so!
• The world’s longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg).
• In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.
• “Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
• The longest word in the English language is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’ which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust.
• “Jack” is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
• In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e’s), Indivisibility (six i’s), and nonannouncement (six n’s).
• The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u’s is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
• The very first dictionary “The American” took Noah Webster 20 years to put together.
• The word “alphabet” is derived from the first two letters in the Greek alphabet: “alpha” and “beta”.
• The only word in the English language that has 4 sets of double letters in a row is balloonneer.
• A moment is defined as zero seconds long.
• The only words with all the vowels listed in order are facetiously and abstemiously.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.
• The only word with all the vowels in reverse order is subcontinental.
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
• Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.