Our next fact is also a fun little way to test your listening skills. Listen to the following sentence and think about what is unusual or special about it: He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas. This sentence has seven words with the vowel sound /i:/. There are seven ways in English to spell the /i:/ sound – yes, seven! You will hear more about the oddities of English spelling in a minute.

Our next fact is also a fun little way to test your listening skills. Listen to the following sentence and think about what is unusual or special about it: He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas. This sentence has seven words with the vowel sound /i:/. There are seven ways in English to spell the /i:/ sound – yes, seven! You will hear more about the oddities of English spelling in a minute.

Our next fact is also a fun little way to test your listening skills. Listen to the following sentence and think about what is unusual or special about it: He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas. This sentence has seven words with the vowel sound /i:/. There are seven ways in English to spell the /i:/ sound – yes, seven! You will hear more about the oddities of English spelling in a minute.

Our next fact is also a fun little way to test your listening skills. Listen to the following sentence and think about what is unusual or special about it: He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas. This sentence has seven words with the vowel sound /i:/. There are seven ways in English to spell the /i:/ sound – yes, seven! You will hear more about the oddities of English spelling in a minute.

Our next fact is also a fun little way to test your listening skills. Listen to the following sentence and think about what is unusual or special about it: He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas. This sentence has seven words with the vowel sound /i:/. There are seven ways in English to spell the /i:/ sound – yes, seven! You will hear more about the oddities of English spelling in a minute.

Speaking of dictionaries, the word “set” has the most definitions of any English word, with well over 400 in the OED. The word “run” is a close second, with nearly 400 in the same dictionary. But the growth of machines and technology is causing “run” to grow much faster than “set.” One can run a computer program, for example. Buses also run on roads and trains run on railroad tracks.