5 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 🧚‍♀



English as the universal language
English is spoken by 952 million people around the world as their first language and 603 million people as their second language.



The longest word in the English language
The longest English word is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,’ which is a medical term for referring to a lung disease caused by fine silica dust inhalation.



The shortest English sentence
‘I am,’ is the shortest complete sentence in English.



The shortest and oldest English word
According to historians and medieval records, ‘I’ is the shortest and oldest English word.



The origin of the English dictionary
English writer Samuel Johnson wrote the first English dictionary in 1755.

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