Creole languages form when children of pidgin speakers create a fully structured native language.

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

English has more irregular verbs than any other Germanic language — a result of Old Norse and Norman French influence.

There is a word in Japanese, 'tsundoku', meaning buying books and never reading them.

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

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

The word 'quarantine' comes from Italian — quarantina means 40 days, the waiting period for plague-exposed ships.

The word 'assassin' derives from the Arabic 'hashishin' — a medieval Islamic sect's name.

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