Funny Facts of English
- The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwen uaitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.
- Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, “L.A.”
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.
- The mouth or nose of a lion is like a fingerprint – no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
- We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
- One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
- Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
- You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
- Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
– compiled by : I.P.THAMILEELAM
