The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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