11 dic 2007

The Alphabet



The English Alphabet


The letter 'o' is the oldest letter in the English alphabet; it has been the same shape since about 1300BC.
'O' is also the least common letter in English; the most common letter is 'e'.
The novel Gadsby, written by Ernest Vincent Wright, has over 50,000 words but none of them use the letter 'e'.
'Almost' is the longest word in English that has all its letters in alphabetical order.
The word 'set' has the most definitions of all words in English.
The word 'four' has four letters; it is the only number in English whose number of letters is the same as its value.

1 comentario:

Anónimo dijo...

du know how to write texts in english and make people be interested in them. Its sometimes difficult, speccially if you learned it in British Shool, but try to imitate ways of doing it from books n stuff like that. Sorry, but it seems to me like an 1000 wrds school text named More Sherlock Stories. Have a look at that, Take care