Body Facts About Languages

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

The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.

The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."

The United States does not have an official language.

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis — a 45-letter term that was deliberately invented to hold that very title!

The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.

The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!

Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"

The word 'nerd' first appeared in print in Dr. Seuss's 1950 book 'If I Ran the Zoo,' though its modern meaning likely evolved from unrelated student slang.

The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.

The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!

Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.

The word "impossible" declined in usage by roughly 50% over the course of the 20th century, according to word frequency analysis