Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. E is the most frequently used letter in English. Gadsby is the only novel (267 pages, !,!!! words" written in #$%$ by Ernest &incent 'right, without the use of letter (E(. Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter) by *ark +wain in #,76. Uncopyrightable is the only # -letter word in the English language that can be written without repeating a letter. +he word Set has .6. definitions in the /0ford English 1ictionary. +he word Run runs a distant second, with %$6. +he dot over the i or j is called a tittle. +he word queue is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the whole for its first letter. +he sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. *andarin is most-spoken language in the world, spoken by #.!7 billion people, followed by English, spoken by #. million. 2apua 3ew 4uinea have the greatest number of first languages. +here are ,6$ separate languages - not dialects. +he world5s first university was established in +a0ila (comprised of cities *ohen6adaro and 7arappa" 2akistan in 7!! 89. +here are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar) 2eriod, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, e0clamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. +he only three English words beginning with dw are) 1warf, dwell and dwindle. ###,###,### 0 ###,###,### : #2,%. ,67,,$,7,6 .,%2# +here are currently 6,$#2 living languages, defined as languages that people speak today. ;etters 'a', ' b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99 (;etter 5d5 comes for the first time in 7undred" ;etters 5a', ' b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999 (;etter 5a5 comes for the first time in +housand" ;etters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999 (;etter 5b5 only comes for the first time in 8illion" ;etter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting +he most common name in the world is *ohammed. +he name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with. <f a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. <f the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. <f the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. *ao =edong of 9hina never brush his teeth in his lifetime. 'hen Eli>abeth-< of ?ussia died in #762, there were # ,!!! dresses in her closets. <n ancient 4reece the word 5idiot5 meant a private citi>en or layman. +he furniture polish (2ledge( means (2iss( in the 3etherlands. <f you were to spell out numbers you would have to get to #!!! before you found the letter (@(.

'hen the 9hevrolet *otor 9ompany tried to introduce the (3ova( car to Apain it wasn5t a big seller. (3ova( means (1oesn5t go( in Apanish.

<n the last ! years the average working vocabulary of a # year old has decreased from 2 ,!!! words to 6ust #!,!!! words.

+he longest word that can be typed only with the left hand is 5Atewardesses5.

+he only English word that ends in 5mt5 is dreamt.

+he word 5Bueue5 is the only word in the English language that can be pronounced the same even if the last four letters have been removed one by one.