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 More than 800 words are added to the English dictionary every year 

Did you know that a new word is created every 98 minutes? That means that more than 800 to 1,000 words are added to English dictionaries every year. This has been happening more for the last couple of years because the internet and technology has led to new words being created. Merriam-Webster even added 690 new words to its dictionary in September 2023. Some of the new words added to dictionaries around the world in 2023 were: 


Rizz (noun), slang: Charm or romantic appeal. 

Simp (verb), informal: Devotion or longing for something or someone. 

Goated (adjective), slang: considered "greatest of all time."  

Girlboss (noun) informal: An ambitious and successful woman (especially a businesswoman or entrepreneur). 

Street date (noun), formal: the date a product is publicly released for sale. 

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 The word “Goodbye” originally comes from an Old English phrase meaning “god be with you”. Etymologically, Great Britain means “great land of the tattooed”. There are seven ways to spell the sound ‘ee’ in English. This sentence contains all of them: “He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas”.
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  E’ is the most common letter in the English language  Did you know that the letter “e” in the English language is the most commonly used letter? It appears in approximately 11% of all words in the English language, which is about 6,000 more words than the runner-up letter, “A”. You probably use this letter a lot without even realizing it! It is the letter which is usually stuck on a keyboard and is also the second most popular key after the space bar. This letter appears in many common words like “time” and “be”, as well as in pronouns like “he”, “she”, “me”, and “we”, and tens of thousands of words that end in “-ed” and “-es”. 
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 It is the only major language that doesn’t have any organisation guiding it – as opposed to the French Académie française, the Spanish Real Academia Española and the German Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung. These organisations are responsible for controlling the evolution of their respective language in terms of usage, vocabulary, and grammar. The most common adjective used in English is “good”. The most commonly used noun is “time”. The word “set” has the highest number of definitions.
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