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

Some languages have no word for 'left' and 'right' — speakers always use cardinal directions (north, south, east, west).

The average English speaker uses only about 20,000 words actively — but recognizes 40,000–50,000.

The Spanish Empire once controlled vast territories in the Americas.

The word 'set' has over 430 definitions in some English dictionaries — the most of any word.

The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I Ran the Zoo' in 1950.

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

Latin gave birth to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian — the Romance languages.

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