Random Language and Words Facts

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.

The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

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

Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.

There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.

The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"