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Interesting facts about British literature

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Interesting facts about British literature

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Here is a list of all the interesting literature facts which you didn't know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there is a lot of stuff related to literature, novels, etc which is indeed interesting!

Interesting Facts about English Literature:

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson"!

A Language dies every 14 days!

The first novel ever written on a typewriter, was Tom Sawyer!

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

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous!

Ghosts appear only in 4 Shakespearean plays: Julius Caesar, Richard III, Hamlet and Macbeth!

Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand!

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple!

The only 15 letter word that can be spelt without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable!

'SWIMS' upside down still looks like 'SWIMS'!

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

The town of Hamelin, Germany famous for the legend of the rat-catching Pied Piper has a Modern day Rat Problem due to the food left by tourists!

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."!

'Aloha' is a Hawaiian word that means both hello and goodbye!

The longest English word without a vowel is - rhythm!

The Times (UK's newspaper) of 22 August 1978 contained the most number of misprints - about 97. In one story about the Pope, he was called "the Pop" throughout the article!

"The Mouse Trap," by Agatha Christie is the longest running play in history!

All of the roles in Shakespeare's plays were originally acted by men and boys. In England at that time, it wasn't proper for females to appear on stage!

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'!

The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, 'Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.'!

John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem, "Paradise Lost."!

In the original story, Sleeping beauty was raped by the prince and gave birth to 2 children. She woke up when a kid sucked on her finger!

Silent and Listen are spelt with the same letters!

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Charles Dickens was a prolific and highly influential 19th century British author, who penned such acclaimed works as 'Oliver Twist,' 'A Christmas Carol,' 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations.' Learn more at Biography.com.

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You made it through Thanksgiving without having an awkward conversation about politics or witnessing in-laws have a meltdown over pumpkin pie.

However, the battle isn't over yet.

It's December, and for many of us that means navigating a gantlet of holiday office parties, neighborhood get-togethers, hockey team potlucks and more. What is "safe" to talk about?

How about language? Below are 15 little-known facts about the English language that can liven up a dull conversation or steer a volatile interchange into calm waters:

1. The English language has 1,100 different ways to spell its 44 distinct sounds, more than any other language. (Source: Learn English Spelling)

2. You can spell out all the numbers from 1 to 99 without using the letters A, B, C or D.

3. The most commonly used word in written English is "the." The most commonly used word in spoken English is "I." (Source: Rinkworks.com)

4. The words "alms," "amends," "doldrums," "ides," "pants," "pliers," "scissors," "shorts," "smithereens" and "trousers" have no singular form.

5. Virginia Woolf was the granddaughter of novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.

6. "You" and "ewe" are pronounced the same, but have no letters in common.

7. Roughly 1,000 new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary every year.

8. The words "bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only unhyphenated English words with three consecutive sets of double letters.

9. A palindrome is a word, phrase, or other sequence of characters that reads the same backward or forward, such as, "Never odd or even."

10. "Sequoia" is the shortest English word containing all five vowels.

11. A tennis injury at age 40 prompted JRR Tolkien to begin writing "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings." (Source: " Out With Tennis Injury, Tolkien Wrote Hobbit")

12. Ninety percent of English text consists of just 1,000 words.

13. The English language contains contranyms-or words that are spelled the same, but have two opposite meanings. Examples include "oversight," "sanction" and "bolt."

14. Though you are not likely to come across it in general use, " pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" is the longest word in the English language.

15. " Gherkins," " quartzy," and " muzjiks" are some of the highest-scoring words in Scrabble.

PR Daily readers, what other language or literary facts can you add to the list? You might help out your colleagues struggling for conversation topics this holiday season.

Laura Hale Brockway is writer and editor from Austin, Texas. Read more of her work on PR Daily and at Impertinent Remarks.

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You made it through Thanksgiving without having an awkward conversation about politics or witnessing in-laws have a meltdown over pumpkin pie. However, the battle isn't over yet. It's December, and for many of us that means navigating a gantlet of holiday office parties, neighborhood get-togethers, hockey team potlucks and more.