Quirks of the English language

There are over 400 million people in the world who speak English as their first language, and it's the official language in 67 countries! So this week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog takes a look at some of the quirks of the English language.

Hair(s).

1) We say "hair" when referring to lots of it, but we say "hairs" when referring to a few.


2) The word 'queue' is the letter 'q' followed by four silent letters.


3) A colleague asked me, "Is it pronounced 'ee-ther' or 'eye-ther'?
I told them it was either.


4) English can be a tricky language to learn for foreign speakers.
It can be mastered through tough thorough thought, though.


5) Why is the word abbreviation so long?


6) Is the 's' or the 'c' silent in the word 'scent'?


7) Adding an s to the end of needles is needless.

Keep your password safe with bad spelling.
Unless your hacker also has bad spelling!

8) Your fingers have fingertips, but your toes don't have toetips, and yet you can tiptoe but you can't tipfinger!


9) When someone tells you to, ‘hold your horses’. They’re telling you to be stable. They're also telling you to reign it in.


10) People with bad spelling have the most secure passwords.

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