Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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