The word 'dinosaur' means 'terrible lizard' — coined by Richard Owen in 1842.

The oldest continuous written language still in use is Chinese — with over 3,000 years of unbroken written tradition.

The Hawaiian language has only 13 letters — 5 vowels and 8 consonants.

The dot over the letters i and j has a name — it's called a tittle.

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

Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words still used today including 'bedroom,' 'lonely,' and 'obscene.'

There are no true synonyms — words with similar meanings always differ in connotation or register.

The @ symbol is called 'arroba' in Spanish and Portuguese, meaning a unit of weight.

The word 'disaster' comes from the Italian 'disastro' — literally meaning 'bad star,' reflecting ancient belief in astral influence on fate.