Facts About Language The language of a society changes slowly but steadily with the result that an educated person will not be able to read or understand words in his language written 500 years ago. Do you feel like you can’t talk to your parents? Maybe it’s because you belong to the Niger-Congo family. More than 1,400 languages are spoken by different members of this family from Africa. It has been estimated that the number of actively spoken languages in the world today is about 6,000. There is no word that rhymes with orange. Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.” The most common letters in English are R S T L N E. There is no word that rhymes with purple. There was only one code during World War II that was never broken by the enemy and was used by the US Army. Navajo soldiers, called Codetalkers, developed a radio code based on their native language. It was the only way US soldiers on the battlefield could be sure that messages were from there own side and not from Japanese imitators. Did you know that the word “typewriter” is the longest word in the English Language that can be spelled with the the top of the keyboard? You speak about 4,800 words a day. HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA is the fear of long words. The holiday Boxing day was originally celebrated in England,for the servants to the rich people. After chrismas,the servants “boxed up” all the left-overs from the rich people and bring them home. A palindrome is a word that is spelled the same way from both ends. For example: racecar
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:59:22 +0000
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