[Language fact 1] The word "procrastinate" comes from Latin meaning "to put off until tomorrow" and there is another word "perendinate" that means "to put off until the day after tomorrow."
[Language fact 2] The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, was introduced by King Sejong in the 1440s to improve literacy. The difficulty of Chinese characters favored privileged aristocrats, whereas Sejong's phonetic alphabet allowed Koreans of all classes to learn how to read and write.
[Language fact 3] When writing a Torah scroll, "an error of a single letter, ornamentation, or symbol of the 304,805 stylized letters that make up the Hebrew Torah text renders it unfit to use."
[Language fact 4] Prolonged exposure to felt containing high levels of mercury would cause mental dysfunction in 18th-century hat makers, ushering in the phrase “As mad as a hatter.”
[Language fact 5] "Muphry's Law" is an intentional misspelling of "Murphy's Law." Muphry's Law states that anything written to criticize the spelling or proofreading of others will ironically contain editing mistakes as well.
[Language fact 6] In the 1970's, a chimp named Nim Chimpsky was raised by a human family and taught sign language to challenge Noam Chomsky's theory that only humans have language. Nim's longest sentence was “Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.”
[Language fact 7] 800 different languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city on Earth.
[Language fact 8] The American Sign Language for “pasteurized milk” is the sign for “milk” while moving your hand past your eyes.
[Language fact 9] The language of Jabba the Hutt "Huttese" is based on Quechua - The Incan language still spoken in parts of South America.
[Language fact 10] The Scots have a word for that panicky hesitation you get when you can’t remember someone’s name: tartle.
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