I’ve been blogging for almost 15 years and have written thousands of words. Also, I’ve been addicted to crossword puzzles for my whole life and know thousands of other words. That being said, I recently stumbled across some trivia concerning words and languages and I like to pass them along. I know a lot of words, but I found out I didn’t know as much as I thought I did.

• Egyptians, Indians, and Turk’s search for “sex” on Google more than any other nationality. “Hitler” is the most popular in Germany, Austria, and Mexico. The word Nazi is a favorite in Chile, Australia, and Britain. “David Beckham” gets the most hits in Venezuela.

• In the Eskimo language Inuktitut, there is a single word meaning “I should try not to become an alcoholic”: Iminngernaveersaartunngortussaavunga.

• The words “tomato”, “coyote”, “avocado”, and “chocolate” all come from the Aztec language Nahuatl.

• The word “boredom” did not exist in the English language until after 1750.

• The “zip” in “zip code” stands for “zone improvement plan”.

• An 18-year-old knows approximately 60,000 words, which represents a learning rate of one word per 90 walking minutes from the age of one.

• By the age of five, children will have acquired 85% of the language they will have as adults.

• The Finnish language has no future tense.

• Over just six days in the month of August 1998, The Washington Post devoted 80,289 words to the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

• The condition of being unable to release a dart from one’s hand when throwing is known as dartitus.

WORDS CAN BE FUN