There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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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 word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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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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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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