1. 'Goodbye' came from 'God bye' which came from 'God be with you.'

2. 'Go.' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

3. There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

4. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

5. In English, 'four' is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.

6. 'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using only the top row on the keyboard.

7. The word 'checkmate' in chess comes from the Persian phrase 'shah mat,' which means, 'the king is dead.'

8. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable.'

9. The longest palindrome in English language is malayalam

10. 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt.'

11. 'Floccinaucinihilipilification' which means 'the act of estimating as worthless' is the longest non-medical word in the English language. it's 29 letters long.