There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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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 longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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