There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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 "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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