1. ‘E’ is the most commonly used letter in the English language.

2. More English words begin with the letter ‘S’ than any other letter of the alphabet.

3. ‘I am.’ is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

4. The longest English word that can be spelled without repeating any letters is ‘uncopyrightable’.

5. The following sentence contains seven different spellings of the sound “ee”: ‘He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas’.

6. There is no word in the English language that rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

7. ‘Queueing’ is the only word with five consecutive vowels (five vowels in a row).

8. English is the official language of the sky! It doesn’t matter which country they are from, all pilots speak in English on international flights.

9. Approximately one new word is added to the English language every two hours and around 4,000 new words are added to the English dictionary every year.