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

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

The Sumerian language, one of the earliest written, died as a spoken language around 2000 BC but continued as a liturgical language for centuries.

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

Children raised bilingually from birth process both languages in the same brain regions — unlike adults who learn a second language.

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

The Inca spread their language Quechua throughout their empire — it's still spoken by 8–10 million people today.

The tongue does not have distinct zones for different tastes — the 'tongue map' is a mistranslation of a German study.

The Japanese concept 'komorebi' means sunlight filtering through leaves — English has no equivalent word.