The Amazing English Language

With over one billion speakers, the English language dominates the cultural landscape like no other language has before. In the spirit of the language, we've compiled a list of some amazing facts about the English language below!

• English is the most widely spoken language in the world 
• It contains over 250,000 distinct words
• It is one of six official languages of the United Nations
• Second language speakers outnumber native English speakers 3 to 1
• It is the most popular foreign language taught around the world
• The only word in the English language that ends with the letters "-mt" is "dreamt"
• The longest English word that does not contain a true vowel is "rhythm"
• According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest world in the English language is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis." It refers to a lung disease caused by ingestion of silica dust
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet

                                                    

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