Time for Riddles (1)

See the bottom part for answers, so here's the questions...

1. What's the world's longest word?

2. What's an English word with 7 consonant and only 1 vowel?

3. What's an English word which consists of 5 letters and if 3 letters removed it still have the same pronounciation?

4. There are three words in the English language that end on "-gry". "Angry" and "hungry" are two of them. What is the third word in the English language?

5. A headless man had a letter to write;

It was read by a man who had lost his sight.

The dumb repeated it word for word;

And deaf was he who listened and heard.

Answers:

1. Smiles, because it takes a mile for the first "s" to reach the other

2. STReNGTH

3. EMPTY, remove EPY leaving MT

4. language

5. Nothing

Headless man writes nothing, blind man reads nothing, dumb man could repeat nothing, deaf man hears nothing,

100 Most Common Words in English

1. the
2. of
3. to
4. and
5. a
6. in
7. is
8. it
9. you
10. that
11. he
12. was
13. for
14. on
15. are
16. with
17. as
18. I
19. his
20. they
21. be
22. at
23. one
24. have
25. this
26. from
27. or
28. had
29. by
30. hot
31. but
32. some
33. what
34. there
35. we
36. can
37. out
38. other
39. were
40. all
41. your
42. when
43. up
44. use
45. word
46. how
47. said
48. an
49. each
50. she
51. which
52. do
53. their
54. time
55. if
56. will
57. way
58. about
59. many
60. then
61. them
62. would
63. write
64. like
65. so
66. these
67. her
68. long
69. make
70. thing
71. see
72. him
73. two
74. has
75. look
76. more
77. day
78. could
79. go
80. come
81. did
82. my
83. sound
84. no
85. most
86. number
87. who
88. over
89. know
90. water
91. than
92. call
93. first
94. people
95. may
96. down
97. side
98. been
99. now
100. find

Source: 500 Most Common Words of English; 1000 Most Common Words of English.

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20 Most Spoken Language

These data below are written in this format: language-countries where it spoken-population (in million)

1. Chinese, Mandarin- Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, S. Africa, Taiwan, Thailand-1120

2. English-Australia, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, India, Ireland, Israel, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, S. Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Tonga, U.K., U.S.,Vanuatu, Zimbabwe, many Caribbean states, Zambia-480

3. Spanish- Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, El Salvador, Eq. Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Togo, Tunisia, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela-332

4. Arabic-Egypt, Sudan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lybia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, UAE, Oman, Iraq, Lebanon-235

5. Bengali-Singapore, India, Bangladesh-189

6. Hindi-Uganda, South Africa, Singapore, Nepal, India-182

7. Russian-Uzbekistan, U.S., Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Russia, Mongolia, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Israel, Georgia, Estonia, China, Belarus-180

8. Portuguese- São Tomé and Príncipe, Portugal, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, France, Cape Verda, Brazil, Angola-170

9. Japanese-Taiwan, Singapore, Japan-125

10. German- Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland-98

11. Chinese, Wu-China-77.2

12. Javanese-Singapore,Malaysia,Indonesia-75.5

13. Korean-Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, China-75

14. French- Vietnam, Vanuatu, Tunisia, TOgo, Siwtzerland, Seychelles, Senegal, Rwanda, Niger, Morocco, Monaco, Mauritania, Mali, Madagascar, Luxembourg, Laos, Ivory Coast, Haiti, Guinea, Gabon, France, Djibouti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Comoros, Chad, Canada, Cameroon, Cambodia, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Benin, Belgium, Andorra, Algeria-72

15. Turkish-Uzbekistan, Turkey, Romania, Macedonia, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria-69

16. Vietnamese-Vietnam, China-66.7

17. Telugu-Singapore, India-66.4

18. Cantonese-Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Panama, Malaysia, Indonesia, Costa Rica, China, Brunei-66

19. Marathi-India-64.8

20. Tamil-Sri Lanka, South Africa, Singapore, Mauritius, Malaysia, India-63.1 

source: The 50 Most Widely Spoken Language; The World's Most Widely Spoken Language

World's longest words by place names

 I. TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGA­HORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU (85 letters), it's a Maorian name for a hill in New Zealand, but now it abbreviates as Taumata. The name means: the summit of the hill, where Tamatea, who is known as the land eater, slid down, climbed up and swallowed mountains, played on his nose flute to his loved one.

II. GORSAFAWDDACHAIDRAIGODANHEDDOGLEDDOLONPENRHYNAREURDRAETH­CEREDIGION (66), it's a town in Wales. The name means: the Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northern Penrhyn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan bay.

III. LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGO­GOCH (58), it's a town in North Wales. The name means: St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

IV. CHARGOGAGOGMANCHARGOGAGOGCHARBUNAGUNGAMOG (41), it's the other name of Lake Webster in Massachusetts, the other names are:

V. CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMOGG (44)

VI. CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUGG (45)

VII. CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHABUNAGUNGAMAUGG (44) 

VIII.NUNATHLOOGAGAMIUTBINGOI (23), it's an Eskimo name for some dunes in Alaska.

World's longest words by chemical terms

I. ACETYLSERYLTYROSYLSERYLISOLEUCYLTHREONYLSERYLPROLYLSERYL­GLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYLVALYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCYLSERYLSERYLVALYL­TRYPTOPHYLALANYLASPARTYLPROLYLISOLEUCYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYLLEUCYL­ASPARAGINYLVALYLCYSTEINYLTHREONYLSERYLSERYLLEUCYLGLYCYL­ASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYLGLUTAMINYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYL­GLUTAMINYLALANYLARGINYLTHREONYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYLVALYL­GLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYLSERYLGLUTAMINYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYL­LYSYLPROLYLPHENYLALANYLPROLYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLTHREONYLVALYL­ARGINYLPHENYLALANYLPROLYLGLYCYLASPARTYLVALYLTYROSYLLYSYLVALYL­TYROSYLARGINYLTYROSYLASPARAGINYLALANYLVALYLLEUCYLASPARTYL­PROLYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYLTHREONYLALANYLLEUCYLLEUCYLGLYCYLTHREONYL­PHENYLALANYLASPARTYLTHREONYLARGINYLASPARAGINYLARGINYLISOLEUCYL­ISOLEUCYLGLUTAMYLVALYLGLUTAMYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYL­SERYLPROLYLTHREONYLTHREONYLALANYLGLUTAMYLTHREONYLLEUCYL­ASPARTYLALANYLTHREONYLARGINYLARGINYLVALYLASPARTYLASPARTYL­ALANYLTHREONYLVALYLALANYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLSERYLALANYLASPARAGINYL­ISOLEUCYLASPARAGINYLLEUCYLVALYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYLVALYL­ARGINYLGLYCYLTHREONYLGLYCYLLEUCYLTYROSYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINYL­ASPARAGINYLTHREONYLPHENYLALANYLGLUTAMYLSERYLMETHIONYLSERYL­GLYCYLLEUCYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLTHREONYLSERYLALANYLPROLYLALANYL­SERINE (1.185 letters), it's a tobacco mosaic virus

II. TETRAMETHYLDIAMINOBENZHYDRYLPHOSPHINOUS (39), it's somekind of acid

III. FORMALDEHYDETETRAMETHYLAMIDOFLUORIMUM (37)

IV. DIMETHYLAMIDOPHENYLDIMETHYLPYRAZOLONE (37)

V. DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE (31), it's a type of pesticide which use to kill lice, abbrv. as DDT

VI. TRINITROPHENYLMETHYLNITRAMINE (29), it's a kind of explosion

VII. ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETATE (27)

VIII. ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETIC (26), it's a type of acid, abbrv. as EDTA