文档介绍：DidYouKnow?The12mostfrequentlyusedwordsinwrittenEnglishare:the,of,and,a,toin,is,you,that,it,he,for■TheEnglishlanguagedatesbacktothe400s,whenGermanictribes,includingAnglesandSaxons,invadedtheislandthatcametobeknown(becauseoftheAngles)-Saxonlanguage,,-freyChaucer’pletedinabout1400)(1564–1616)areoftencitedasthebeginningofModernEnglish.■FiguresregardingtheaverageAmerican’stotalvocabularyvarygreatly,fromfewerthan5,000wordstomorethan20,-,ifaper-sonknowsthemeaningofjump,someresearchersassumethatthepersonalsoknowsthemeaningofitsderivatives(jumps,jumped,jumping,jumper,jumpers,jumpy),-rivatives,sointhecaseofjump,theywouldgivecreditforonlyoneword.■ThequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydogcontainseveryletterintheEng-lishalphabet.(Thiskindofsentenceiscalledapangram.)■NowordsintheEnglishlanguagerhymewithorange,month,purple,orsilver.■SetistheEnglishwordthathasthemostdefinitions(theOxfordEnglishDic-tionarylists192).■Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioisis(alungdisease)isthelon--,e,i,o,oru.■Strengthistheonlyeight-.■AlmostistheshortestEnglishwordwhoselettersallappearinalphabeticalorder.■.■DreamtistheonlyEnglishwordthatendsin-,horrendous,stu-pendous,andhazardousaretheonlyEnglishwordsthatendin-,continuum,andresiduumaretheo