The English department has gathered 5 facts about English that you probably weren`t aware of.

English is a very vast and commonly used language, but let´s find out some interesting peculiarities of it.

Let´s begin with a very common phrase used in movies and in our daily routines. When we haven´t seen the person for a significant period of time we say “long time no see” but this phrase or sentence is grammatically incorrect in many ways, but this is because it is believed to be a literal translation of a Native American or Chinese phrase.

English is said to be one of the happiest languages in the world and that is because the word “happy” is used 3 times more often than the word “sad”! So let’s keep practicing this happy language and give a little attitude in our daily basis.

Now  we can find some  weird words and symbols in some of them  like  fiancé or résumé  and we wonder why do this words have an accent if we don´t use accents in English.  And the reason is that English language adopted those words among others from a different language like French for instance.

We can also find some fun things in English like a pangram. This   is a sentence that contains every letter in the language. For example, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." So count the letters and see it for yourself.

Finally, if you want to study something related to science remember that English is the most commonly used language in science.

https://www.lingoda.com/en/blog/fun-facts-english-language

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/10-interesting-english-facts-guest/

https://reallifeglobal.com/franglish-33-english-words-adopted-from-french-with-audio/