As language scholars and aficionados, we at Worldly Translations always enjoy sharing the singularities that make each language unique.
Have you ever asked yourselves questions like: “which is the longest word in my native language?”, “how many sounds are there in my language?” or “which is the longest monosyllabic word in the foreign language that I’ve been studying for years?”. These questions and many more that revolve around languages, spark our curiosity every day.
Beyond the main idiomatic differences that make professional translations into a true challenge, the small details are what actually make each language special and different from all other. Those words that don’t have an equivalent in another language or the regional differences that distinguishes between native speakers of the same language, all of it is part of the universe of language singularities.
In this article, we invite you to learn these 14 curious facts about the English language that we find very interesting and would like to share with our readers: