The best things about English

1. Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters.

2. Boxing rings are square.

3. Queue is the only English word where 80% of its letters are redundant.

4. Verb is a Noun.

5. Facetious is one of the most commonly used words that contains all the vowels in the correct order [ A E I O U]

6. Schoolmaster is an anagram of "the classroom."

7. Typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top line of a qwerty keyboard.

8. The shortest -ology is Oology, the scientific study of eggs.

9. Flammable and inflammable are synonyms

10. Hyphenated and Non-Hyphenated. Oh, how ironic.

11. The word oxymoron itself is an oxymoron. The Greek word "oxy" means "sharp" and "moron" means "dull"!