The English word 'war' derives from the Old High German 'werra,' meaning strife or confusion.

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

The Oxford comma can prevent genuine ambiguity — 'I dedicate this to my parents, Ayn Rand and God.'

The dot over a lowercase 'i' and 'j' is called a tittle.

The English word 'lord' derives from Old English 'hlafweard' — bread-guardian.

Esperanto has around 2 million speakers and was invented in 1887 by Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof.

The shortest complete sentence in the English language is 'I am.'

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

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