lunes, 22 de octubre de 2012

Some Curiosities about the English Language

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet!

The most used letter in the English alphabet is "E", and "Q" is the least used!

Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.

The shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am".

Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

The only word in the English language that has four sets of double letters in row is balloonneer.

The word "Queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Almost is the longest word with the letters in the alphabetical order

Hijinks is the word with the most consecutive dotted letters.

Stewardessess is the longest word that can be typed with one hand.

Nobody uses a typewriter anymore but everyone still types.

"Round" is the only word that can be used as five different parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition).




Who can translate this one??

 In "The treatment he had had had had no effect", the same word appears four times in a row with no intervening punctuation.

2 comentarios:

  1. El tratamiento que él había tomado, no había tenido ningún efecto. Is it correct? Hope so!

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  2. Hi Olga!! you are the first to comment on the blog so THANKS!!

    Your translation is absolutely right, not only for your translation of the double past perfect but also for using the Spanish verb "tomar" as a translation for "have".

    Good work!!

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