Funny Facts of English

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• 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