The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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