Language Facts

The USA doesn't have an official language, but English is the de facto language.

Tags: Language, English, United States, USA, America, Interesting

Fact Page: The United States does not have an official language.
Date Added: 2012-04-12 03:23:36
Fact Category: Language Fact

Tags: English, Language, Word, Interesting

Fact Page: The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
Date Added: 2012-04-03 15:49:20
Fact Category: Language Fact

Tags: English, Literature, Word, Language, Interesting

Fact Page: There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Date Added: 2011-11-22 16:03:09
Fact Category: Language Fact

Tags: Stress, Dessert, English, Language, Word

Fact Page: Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
Date Added: 2011-04-28 08:37:02
Fact Category: Language Fact

Tags: English, Language, Sentence

Fact Page: WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
Date Added: 2011-04-17 16:52:34
Fact Category: Language Fact

The plural forms are clitorises in English and clitorides in Latin. In slang, it is sometimes abbreviated as clit, which originated in the 1950s. The OED suggests that the pronunciation is also used in the UK, and gives the likely etymology as coming from the Greek, kleitoris, perhaps derived from the verb, kleiein, to shut. The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the etymology of this diminutive is uncertain. Possible etymological candidates are a Greek word meaning "key", "latch", "hook"; a Greek verb meaning "to touch or titillate lasciviously", "to tickle" (the clitoris is called in German slang der Kitzler, "the tickler"), although this verb is more likely derived from "clitoris"; and a Greek word meaning "side of a hill", from the same root as "climax".

Tags: Clitoris, Greek, Language, English, Sex

Fact Page: The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
Date Added: 2011-02-25 08:06:45
Fact Category: Language Fact

Tags: Typewriter, Keyboard, Typing, Computer, English, Language

Fact Page: TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Date Added: 2011-02-06 08:06:36
Fact Category: Computer Fact

Tags: Language

Fact Page: There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
Date Added: 2010-10-21 16:35:40
Fact Category: Language Fact