1. Some Known and Unknown Facts about English

2. You Know

3. English as the International Language

4. Many people can speak English 375ml- first-language speakers 375ml- second-language speakers 375ml- foreign-language speakers

5. Language Families

6. The Celtic Tribes on the Territory of the British Isles

7. Germanic Tribes and Their Influence on the Formation of the Basis of the English Language

8. Other Languages except for English

9. Old English(the 5 cent.-1066)

10. Middle English(1066-1500)

11. Modern English (1500-present time) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rexKqvgPV uA

13. The first English dictionary was written in 1755!

14. The oldest word is

15. More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.

16. The longest word with only one vowel is ‘strengths’

17. The top five most- used English words are: THE, OF, AND, TO, A.

18. The most commonly-used word in conversation is

19. is the most-used word in the English language.

20. Only two English words in current use end in "-gry"

21. No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

22. The words 'Bookkeeper' and 'bookkeeping' are the only 2 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters!

23. The word ' almost ' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order!

24. The word " uncopyrightable " is the longest English word in normal use that contains no letter more than once.

25. The longest words in Oxford Dictionaries Online are:

26. Antidisestablishmentarianism- 28 letters Floccinaucinihilipilification- 29 letters Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis- 45 letters

27. The longest official word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8

28. 10 English words voted hardest to translate: 1 plenipotentiary 2 gobbledegook 3 serendipity 4 poppycock 5 googly 6 spam 7whimsy 8 bumf 9chuffed 10kitsch

29. The shortest complete sentence in English is the following

30. A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a " pangram ".

32. English is changing every day. It means that there will be more new longest, new shortest and new most- used words in future. So, we’ll never say that we know English perfectly