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

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

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

Code-switching — alternating between two languages mid-sentence — is a sophisticated linguistic skill, not a deficiency.

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

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

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

Babies can distinguish phonemes from any language at birth but lose this ability by 12 months.

There are languages with no word for specific colors — some languages group blue and green as one color.