Big Dumb Facts

•The shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am.”


•The most used letter in the English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!


•Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.


•Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a triple letter.


•The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet!


•The sentence “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs” uses every letter of the alphabet and uses the least letters to do so!


•There is a lawsuit every 30 seconds in the U.S.


•More than 50% of time spent in U.S courtrooms is over automobile cases.


•The world’s longest-named lake has 45 letters (Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg).


•In the U.S. there are 18 doctors called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon. There is also a dermatologist named Dr. Rash, a psychiatrist called Dr. Couch and an anesthesiologist named Dr. Gass.


•“Rhythm” is the longest English word without a vowel.


•The longest word in the English language is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’ which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust.


•“Jack” is the most common name in nursery rhymes.


•In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e’s), Indivisibility (six i’s), and nonannouncement (six n’s).


•The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u’s is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.