Read some facts about English.
• There were only 30,000 words in Old English. Modern English has the largest vocabulary in the world — more than 600,000 words.• There are about 60,000 words in common use.• About 450-500 words are added to the English vocabulary every year.• 70 per cent of the English vocabulary are loan words and only 30 per cent of the words are native.• There are words from 120 languages in English, including Russian.• The most frequently used words in written English are: the, of, and, to, a, in, that, is, I, it, for and as.• The most frequently used word in conversation is I.• The longest word in English language is: Pneumonoultamicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a lung disease).• The commonest letter is "e".• More words begin with the letter "s" than any other.• The most overworked word in English is the word set. It has 126 verbal uses and 58 noun uses.• The newest letters added to the English alphabet are "j" and "v", which are of post- Shakespearean use.• The largest English-language dictionary is the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, with 21,728 pages.• The commonest English name is Smith. There are about 800,00 people called Smith in England and Wales, and about 1,700,000 in the USA.Fill in these phrases:1. has the largest _______ in the world2. letters added to _______ alphabet3. commonest ________ name