“A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different
ways. The sentence above contains them all.

Mer jag aldrig lärde mig på engelsklektionen:

• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
  “screeched.”
• “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters
  “mt”.
• The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe.
• The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
• The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the
  English language.
• “Underground” is the only word in the English language that
  begins and ends with the letters “und.”
• There are only four words in the English language which end
  in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• The longest word in the English language, according to the
  Oxford English Dictionary,
  is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
  The only other word with the same amount of letters is
  pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
• There is a seven letter word in the English language that
  contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters,
  “therein” the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
  letter is uncopyrightable.
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
  order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”
• The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase
  “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.

Språk är kul. Det här var hämtat härifrån.