15 fun facts about the English language

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Fun Facts
About the English Language
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Facts 1
English is the world's 3rd most spoken language
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Facts 2
There are arround 360 - 400 million native
speakes of English arround the Globe.
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Facts 3
1.75 Billion (1 in 4 people) can speak english
at a useful language.
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Facts 4
67 countries have English as an official
language.
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Facts 5
There are 12 millian English teachers in the
world
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Facts 6
There are 171476 active, 47156 obsolete, and
9500 devivative words in the oxford English
dictionary.
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Facts 7

• In India, arround 100 million people speak
  english they earn 34 higher than their
  counterparts.

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Facts 8
11 of the entire English language is just the
letter "E".
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Facts 9
The shortest, oldest and most commonly used
word is "I".
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Facts 10
" I Am" is the shortest complete sentence in
English.
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Facts 11
The longest English word that can be spelled
without repeating any letters is
'uncopyrightable'.
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Facts 12
On average, approximately 1000 new words are
added to the Oxford Dictionaries online every
year.
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FactS 13
English is the official language of the skies
pilots speak in English on International
flights.
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Facts 14
'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'
is the longest word in English Language. The
word refers to a lung disease caused by inhaling
very fine ash and sand dust.
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Facts 15
The word "Girl" was not initially used to refer
to a specific gender. It used to mean "Child"
or "Young Person" regardless of the gender.
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