The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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