English Language FAQ

Questions people ask about the world most commonly spoken language.

A pangram is a sentence containing all 26 letters of the alphabet. The best know example is The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

There are three main candidates for the shortest sentence in the English language.

The first dictionary definition of hype (1967) was ' excessive or misleading publicity or advertising'.

Like everything about the word hooley , the spelling is disputed.