'Dreamt' is the only common English word that ends in 'mt'.

There's a German word 'schadenfreude' meaning pleasure derived from others' misfortune, with no English equivalent.

Fact #3443 · Language

Creole languages form when children of pidgin speakers create a fully structured native language.

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The word 'assassin' comes from the Arabic 'hashishin,' a term for a secretive Islamic sect.

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

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Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of one's world.

Fact #5521 · Language

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

Fact #6037 · Language

Noam Chomsky proposed humans have an innate 'universal grammar' — a built-in capacity for language.

Fact #6234 · Language

The alphabet is a Greek invention — the Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician consonant alphabet around 800 BC.

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