Can you give me some English trivias?

Answer 1

The longest common (i.e., likely to appear in an unabridged dictionary) word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (45)6; The two longest one-syllable words in English "screeched" (9)2, "strengths" (9)2. words which contain all five (or six, if you append "ly") vowels in alphabetical order "facetious"1, "abstemious"4, "annelidous"5, "arsenious"4 words which contain all five vowels in reverse alphabetical order "duoliteral"5, "subcontinental"5 "uncomplimentary"5 words which contain the longest strings of consonants14 "bergschrund" (6), "borschts" (6), "eschscholtzia" (6), "latchstring" (6), "weltschmerz" (6) longest word with no repeated letters "uncopyrightable" (15)4 sentence containing seven spellings of the [i] ("ee") sound "He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas." sentence containing nine ways the combination "ough" can be pronounced "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman

strode through the streets of Scarborough;

after falling into a slough,

he coughed and hiccoughed." longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with left hand9 "desegregated" (12), "desegregates" (12), "reverberated" (12), "reverberates" (12), "stewardesses" (12), "watercresses" (12) longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with right hand10 "homophony" (9), "homophyly" (9), "nonillion" (9), "pollinium" (9), "polyonomy" (9), "polyphony" (9) longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with alternating hands11 "dismantlement" (13) longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard on the top row ("qwertyuiop")7 "rupturewort" (11) longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard on the middle row ("asdfghjkl")8 "alfalfas" (11), "hadassah" (11) The longest common (i.e., likely to appear in an unabridged dictionary) word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (45)6; The two longest one-syllable words in English "screeched" (9)2, "strengths" (9)2. words which contain all five (or six, if you append "ly") vowels in alphabetical order "facetious"1, "abstemious"4, "annelidous"5, "arsenious"4 words which contain all five vowels in reverse alphabetical order "duoliteral"5, "subcontinental"5 "uncomplimentary"5 words which contain the longest strings of consonants14 "bergschrund" (6), "borschts" (6), "eschscholtzia" (6), "latchstring" (6), "weltschmerz" (6) longest word with no repeated letters "uncopyrightable" (15)4 sentence containing seven spellings of the [i] ("ee") sound "He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas." sentence containing nine ways the combination "ough" can be pronounced "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman

strode through the streets of Scarborough;

after falling into a slough,

he coughed and hiccoughed." longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with left hand9 "desegregated" (12), "desegregates" (12), "reverberated" (12), "reverberates" (12), "stewardesses" (12), "watercresses" (12) longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with right hand10 "homophony" (9), "homophyly" (9), "nonillion" (9), "pollinium" (9), "polyonomy" (9), "polyphony" (9) longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with alternating hands11 "dismantlement" (13) longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard on the top row ("qwertyuiop")7 "rupturewort" (11) longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard on the middle row ("asdfghjkl")8 "alfalfas" (11), "hadassah" (11)