There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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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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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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