The word 'lethologica' describes the inability to remember the word you want.

Some languages mark grammatical distinctions English lacks — such as whether the speaker knows something directly or by report.

The alphabet is a Greek invention — the Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician consonant alphabet around 800 BC.

The word 'lethologica' describes the inability to remember the word you want.

Esperanto, invented in 1887, is the world's most widely spoken constructed language with an estimated 2 million speakers.

Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words still in use today, including 'bedroom', 'lonely', and 'generous'.

The word 'emoji' is Japanese for 'picture character' — e (picture) + moji (character).

English has the largest vocabulary of any language — the Oxford English Dictionary contains over 600,000 words.

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