Social grooming in primates was replaced in humans by conversation — language evolved partly as a social bonding tool.

The word 'lethologica' describes the inability to remember the word you are trying to say.

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

Some parrots can learn to associate words with objects.

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

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

There are no true synonyms — words with similar meanings always differ in connotation or register.

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.

All human languages have nouns and verbs — but many lack adjectives or other categories found in English.