• 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: (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.

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1. words are the English vocabulary every

2. 126 verbal and 58 noun uses

3. commonest name

1. I believe in flower fairies because it could be a cool theory even if it isn’t true. I think our life is filled with magic but we can’t see it.

2. Flower fairies are the caretakers of all flowers.

3. They are usually dressed in the colour of the flowers they protect.

4. I think flowers need fairies to protect them from harmful insects or natural phenomena. Flowers also need to be taken care of, and fairies are the perfect candidates to do it.

5. People should always be careful before picking a tulip to make sure that a fairy baby is not sleeping inside.

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Kazakhstan is one of the independent states of the Commonwealth Independent States (the CIS). It is situated in the central part of the Euro-Asian continent. Its territory stretched from West and East for 3,000 kilometres and from North to South for 1,600 kilometres covering an area 2,717,000 sq. kms. In the West, Northwest and North Kazakhstan borders on the Russian Federation. In the South and Southwest are the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. In the Southeast and East, there is China. The border length of Kazakhstan is more than 15,000 km.

According to active administrative and territorial division, Kazakhstan consists of 14 regions, and 223 districts. There are 83 cities and 204 townships. The regions are Astana, Almaty, Atyrau, Aktobe, Eastern Kazakhstan, Taraz, Mangystay, Pavlodar, Kzyl-orda, Karaganda and Kostanai.

The population of Kazakhstan now numbers 17 million people. People of 120 nationalities live in the country. Kazakh is the state language, but Russian is officially used on an equal basis with Kazakh. The languages of the minority groups living in our Republic our freely spoken.

In December 1991, a new independent country-the Republic of Kazakhstan –joined the World community. The 16th of December was celebrated as an Independence Day of Kazakhstan. The Republic of Kazakhstan is a unitary country with a presidential form of the government. The first president of Kazakhstan is N. A. Nazarbayev. He became the first president of the Country in April 1990.

Kazakhstan has huge reserves of mineral recourse, such as crude oil, natural gas, copper, zinc, gold and silver. Mining, machinery manufacture, the production of petro-chemicals and agriculture are important sectors of the economy. Agriculture provides grain, fruit, cotton, tobacco and meat.

The Republic of Kazakhstan has played a major role in the history and development of the Central Asia. Kazakhstan has a special status within the