There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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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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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 are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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