Discover the Power of Words: Top 8 Unbelievable Fun Facts You Never Knew

1. Vowel-less Scrabble Words

If you're ever stuck in a game of Scrabble, feeling vowel-curious, and wishing there was an 'I' in team: fret not! Introducing words without vowels like "syzygy," a versatile noun referencing astronomical alignments, or "trysts" for those mysterious secret meetings, and even the sound of disapproval "tsktsks," which is totally playable, vowel-free, and a guaranteed conversation starter.
Source => word-grabber.com

2. Shakespeare's Word Inventions

If William Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be that guy at parties who invents hilarious new terms for everything while convincingly arguing that "panda-monium" should definitely become a thing: This esteemed bard not only penned enduring works of literature, but he also concocted over 1,700 words still in use today, such as "alligator," "bedroom," "eyeball," "gossip," and "traditional," making up a whopping portion of his 20,000-word vocabulary across plays and poems.
Source => shakespeare.org.uk

Did you know that a Hungarian inventor and his chemist brother conquered the chaos of smudged ink, revolutionizing writing with their invention of the first successful ballpoint pen in 1938? Discover how they adapted quick-drying newspaper ink, leading to BIC's global domination with over 100 billion pens sold!

=> Fun Facts about Writing

3. The Mysterious Word "Dord"

Are you feeling a little "dord" today? Wait, you don't know what that means? Well, neither do we! It's a ghost word that haunted the pages of Merriam-Webster for a good eight years: The word "dord" snuck into the 1934 edition of Merriam-Webster's New International Dictionary as a synonym for density, only to be exorcised by an eagle-eyed editor in 1939, finally vanishing from the dictionary in 1947. So, next time you say "density," just remember you could have been saying "dord" instead!
Source => en.wikipedia.org

4. Longest Word: Titin Protein Name

Forget a spoonful of sugar: try saying this word to make the medicine go down! Here's a protein name that could have you tongue-tied for ages - Titin, or "connectin," holds the record for the longest word in the English language, boasting 189,819 letters: Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl is its longest fragment recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary, and contrary to popular belief, it takes merely a few minutes to say instead of a staggering three hours.
Source => beelinguapp.com

5. Origin of "Defenestrate"

Ever heard of a "window of opportunity"? Well, there's also the window of defenestration – a pane-ful experience that sends folks hurtling into the great unknown: The word "defenestrate" hails from the Latin "fenestra" and means to throw someone or something out a window. This strangely specific term was first coined in 1383 following a dramatic incident in which a Portuguese bishop found himself hastily evicted from Lisbon's cathedral tower. Nowadays, it's often used metaphorically to describe the sudden removal of someone from a position of power or importance.
Source => dictionary.com

6. Twitter's Original Name: "Twttr"

Once upon a time in the tech-savvy land of "oops, I pressed send too soon," a new platform was being hatched, where people across the world would soon virtually chirp and flutter their thoughts in bite-sized tidbits: this creative cove, now known as Twitter, was originally dubbed "twttr" in an ode to the five-character caps of American SMS short codes. The modern-day moniker blossomed when the founders stumbled upon the twitter.com domain, forever changing the way we share our thoughts, all starting with co-founder Jack Dorsey's initiation tweet of "just setting up my twttr."
Source => en.wikipedia.org

7. World's Second Longest Word

Feeling a bit floccinauci-what now? You only have to say this word once to simultaneously impress and confound your friends: Behold, "floccinaucinihilipilification"! This twenty-nine-letter jumble straight out of a "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" fever dream means the act of deeming something completely worthless or insignificant. Props to the quick-witted Eton College students who coined this term as a playful blend of Latin word stems, leaving "antidisestablishmentarianism" in the dust by a single letter. In fact, the former even made its grand entrance into Parliament in 2012, courtesy of Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, confounding MPs and impressing The Oxford English Dictionary all in one go.
Source => en.wiktionary.org

8. The Ghost Word Game

Who you gonna call? Word-busters! In the ghastly game of Ghost, paranormal enthusiasts can spook each other by challenging the existence of a word that starts with the chilling fragment at hand: The challenged player must spell a phantom-free word or lose a point; if they can't, the cunning challenger earns a terrifying point.
Source => icebreakers.ws