There are over 24 different dialects in the US alone Other examples include Velcro, Frisbee, Q-Tip, and Hula Hoop.ħ. Indeed, all of the above words were commercial products before they gained popularity as generic nouns. If so, you’ve used a proprietary eponym, which are brand names that have snuck their way into our everyday vocabulary.
Have you ever used a Band-Aid? Or thrown away your garbage into a Dumpster? Or tried a Popsicle? Or Xeroxed a sheet of paper? Words that derive from brand names are called proprietary eponyms Image via English Language College Hong Kong / Wikipedia 6. This makes it the fourth-most populous English-speaking nation in the world, after the United States, India, and Pakistan. Nigeria, in contrast, has over 90 million. The UK – the birthplace of the English language – has about 60 million English speakers. There are more English speakers in Nigeria than in the UK In contrast, the least-used letter, “Q”, is seen only once in every 500 letters.ĥ. The most common letter in the English language, “E”, has an incidence rate of over one in 10 letters.
11% of English consists only of the letter “E” These sentences are officially known as pangrams. This oft-cited sentence is famous for containing all 26 letters and is thus frequently used to showcase particular typefaces. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter in the alphabet According to the Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, the word came about because the debt becomes void or ‘dead’ when the pledge was redeemed”.ģ.
This isn’t a coincidence: “mortgage” indeed derives from French. If you study French, you may notice that the English word “mortgage” looks like the French words mort (death) and gage (contract). 2020 was characterised by words like "live stream" and "pay gap".Ģ. A new word is created once every two minutesĮach year, about 4000 words are added to the dictionary, which comes out to a whopping rate of over one word every two minutes! 2014, for example, seems to have been a fun year, since some of the words added were “selfie” and “twerk”.
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