Interesting Facts About English

The most common letter in English is "e".
The most common vowel in English is "e", followed by "a".
The most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".
Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".
More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.
The dot over the letter "i" and the letter "j" is called a "superscript dot".
In normal usage, the # symbol has several names, for example: hash, pound sign, number sign.
In English, the @ symbol is usually called "the at sign" or "the at symbol"
If we place a comma before the word "and" at the end of a list, this is known as an "Oxford comma" or a "serial comma". For example: "I drink coffee, tea, and wine."
Some words exist only in plural form, for example: glasses (spectacles), binoculars, scissors, shears, tongs, gallows, trousers, jeans, pants, pyjamas (but note that clothing words often become singular when we use them as modifiers, as in "trouser pocket").
The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."
The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm".
The only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth. The others are, in order from the Sun, Mercury, Venus, [Earth,] Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
There are only 4 English words in common use ending in "-dous": hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.