The word 'lethologica' describes the state of being unable to remember the word you want to use.

The word 'robot' comes from the Czech word 'robota', meaning forced labor.

The Oxford comma (serial comma) prevents ambiguity — its omission once led to a $5 million court settlement.

Latin gave birth to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian — the Romance languages.

The longest word in English, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, was invented to be the longest word.

The word 'nice' originally meant foolish or stupid in 13th-century English — its meaning has almost fully reversed.

The word 'salary' derives from 'sal' (salt) — Roman soldiers were paid a salt allowance.

The word 'cereal' comes from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain and harvest.

There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken in the world — about half are expected to disappear by end of the century.