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The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am.”
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 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.
A moment is defined as zero seconds long.
The world’s longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg).
The only words with all the vowels listed in order are facetiously and abstemiously.
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.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.
“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.
The only word with all the vowels in reverse order is subcontinental.
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.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!