There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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