Language Interesting Facts

• The three words in the English language with the letters "uu" are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
• A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James
• 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'
• There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
• The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish meaning the same thing
• Pogonophobia: The fear of beards
• In Chinese, the words crisis and opportunity are the same
• The infinity character on the keyboard is called a "lemniscate"
• Good bye came from God bye which came from God be with you. So-long came from the Arabic salaam and the Hebrew shalom
• The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I ran the Zoo'
• before Jets, Jet lag was called Boat lag
• The word "monosyllable" actually has five syllables in it
• There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver and orange
• The letter "n" ends all Japanese words not ending in a vowel.
• It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
• 'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish
• You won’t find a "6" in Cameroon phone numbers--the native language has no sound for "x."
• The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
• Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down--hence the expression "to get fired.