• According to Illinois state (America) law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is “American”.
• Widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male form “widower”.
• There is only one word in the English language with three consecutive sets of double letters…. “Bookkeeper”.
• There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, “therein”: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
• There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay Indonesian, French, Japanese, German and Urdu.
• There are roughly 6500 spoken languages in the world today. However 2000 of those languages have fewer than 1000 speakers.
• The word “queue” is the only English word that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
• The longest word in the Finnish language, that is not a compound word, is ‘epaejaerjestelmaellistyttaemaettoemyydellaensaekaeaen’. In English it means 'even with their lack of ability to disorganize'.
• The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis". The word refers to a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles. The only other word with the same amount of letters "ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoconioses", its plural.
• The Chinese language does not require punctuation.
• Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.
• Of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.
• French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
• "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
• "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.
• "Rhythm" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
• The language in which a government conducts business is the official language of that country.
• The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France.
• Many of the state names comes from native American languages. Example, the tribe Ute name themselves Utah.
• Eskimos have more than twenty words to describe snow.
• China has more English speaking people than the United States.
• The word sugar is the only English word starting with SU where the S is pronounced SH.
• Mafia is an old Arabic word that means sanctuary.
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
• I am, is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The word karate means empty hand.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
• There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
• In Chinese script, there are more than 40 000 characters.
• The ampersand & was once a letter of the English alphabet.
• English is the only language that capitalizes ‘I’, the first person singular.
• In nearly every language around the world, the word for mother begins with an ‘m’ sound.
• Beware of bottles labeled “gift” in Germany. In German gift means poison.
• The only 15 letter word can be spelt without repeating a letter is UNCOPYRIGHTABLE.
• The only word that has 2 letters each used times is DEEDED
