The word 'queue' is the only English word in which removing the last four letters does not change its pronunciation.

Wikipedia has over 65 million articles across all languages — English alone has over 6 million.

The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters — all consonants — and became the ancestor of most Western alphabets.

Languages evolve continuously — Shakespeare's English is dramatically different from today's just 400 years later.

The most translated book in history is the Bible — available in over 700 languages.

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters — 5 vowels and 8 consonants.

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

The word 'dollar' derives from the Bohemian Joachimsthal, where silver coins called 'Joachimsthaler' (thalers) were minted.

The printing press led to standardized spelling — before it, words were spelled however the writer chose.