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As of 2024, there are 57 sovereign states and 28 non-sovereign entities where English is an official language. Many administrative divisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level. Most states where English is an official language are former territories of the British Empire.
There is one count that puts the English vocabulary at about 1 million words—but that count presumably includes words such as Latin species names, scientific terminology, botanical terms, prefixed and suffixed words, jargon, foreign words of extremely limited English use, and technical acronyms.
Believed to be the longest official one-word place name in the United States. Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein (44 letters) Farm in the North West province of South Africa: Afrikaans "The spring where two buffaloes were shot stone-dead with one shot". Notes: The longest one-word place name in Africa.
List of places named for the Marquis de Lafayette; List of places named after Saint Francis; List of places named for Benjamin Franklin; List of places named for Charles de Gaulle; List of places named for Pope John Paul II; List of places named for Nathanael Greene; List of places named for Sam Houston; List of places named for Andrew Jackson
List of English homographs; List of English words with disputed usage; List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs; List of ethnic slurs; List of generic and genericized trademarks; List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English; List of self-contradicting words in English; Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year; Most common ...
Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and short-story collections, including We Loved It All (2024) and A Children’s Bible, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in ...
Everything, every-thing, or every thing, is all that exists; it is an antithesis of nothing, or its complement. It is the totality of things relevant to some subject matter . Without expressed or implied limits , it may refer to anything .
I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.