The most common letter in the English language is 'E,' appearing in about 11% of all words.

There are more possible passwords of 8 characters than grains of sand on Earth.

Txting and internet slang follow consistent grammatical patterns — linguists study them as natural language change.

English has more words than any other language — but speakers use fewer than 1% of the dictionary in daily life.

The first novel ever written in English is generally considered to be 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719.

The average educated English speaker knows 40,000–50,000 words but uses only 5,000–10,000 daily.

The grammar of most languages encodes social hierarchy — languages like Korean have distinct speech levels for different relationships.

English has the largest vocabulary of any language — the Oxford English Dictionary contains over 600,000 words.

The United States has no official language — English is the dominant language but is not legally designated.