There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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