Interesting English

English language has a huge data of interesting words. Find out some really amusing words in English as the articles unfolds to increase your vocabulary. As the cliché goes, 'English is a funny language' because of its inscrutable structure. The very funny English language has eccentricities that seem incomprehensible at times. Solving a puzzle from the New York Times sometimes makes you wonder about 'abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper's profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, here's a reason to be sanguine'; the English language has an insurmountable data of interesting words for its readers. Here's a list of interesting words in English that will help to improve your puzzle-solving techniques, vocabulary and to you can have productive things to do at home. Interesting Words List Agrestic : Someone who is rude, uncouth and uncultured. Ubiquitous : W...

The oldest words in the English language are around 14,000 years old, originating in a pre-Indo-European language group called Nostratic (“our language”) by experts. Words from this language group that survive in modern English include apple ( apal ), bad ( bad ), gold ( gol ), and tin ( tin ).  The word  arctic  is derived from the ancient Greek word for bear,  arktos . The reason is that the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, lies in the northern sky.  In Old English, the word  with  meant “against”. This meaning is still preserved in phrases such as “to fight with”.  No English words rhyme fully with  orange , <!–  purple , actually, curple and hirple rhyme with purple –> silver , or  month  (there are, however, some partial rhymes, or pararhymes, for these words, such as salver  for  silver  and  lozenge  for  orange ).  The longest English word that...