There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken on Earth today, and one goes extinct roughly every two weeks.

The average English speaker uses only about 20,000 words actively — but recognizes 40,000–50,000.

The longest palindrome in English is a sentence: 'A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.'

The word 'set' has the most definitions in the English language — over 430 in some dictionaries.

The sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' contains every letter of the English alphabet.

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

Txting and internet slang follow consistent grammatical patterns — linguists study them as natural language change.

The color 'orange' was named after the fruit — before oranges arrived in Europe, the color was simply called 'yellow-red.'

The dot over the lowercase letter 'i' is called a tittle.