Welocalize, a sponsor at Content Marketing World 2014, hosted a social media Language Fun Facts challenge. Are you ready to take the challenge?

1. Language Fun Facts
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2. Language Fun Fact
The dot above lower
case i’s and j’s is
called what?
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3. Language Fun Fact
The dot above lower
case i’s and j’s is
called what?
Answer: Tittle

4. Language Fun Fact
If a sentence uses every
letter of the alphabet
once it’s called what?
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5. Language Fun Fact
If a sentence uses every
letter of the alphabet
once it’s called what?
Answer: Pangram

6. Language Fun Fact
Which language is not
related to any other in
the world?
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7. Language Fun Fact
Which language is not
related to any other in
the world?
Answer: Basque

8. Language Fun Fact
Which country has the
most active users on
Twitter?
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9. Language Fun Fact
Which country has the
most active users on
Twitter?
Answer: China

10. Language Fun Fact
A fear of long words is
called what?
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11. Language Fun Fact
A fear of long words is
called what?
Answer:
HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA

12. Language Fun Fact
How many imaginary
languages are there in
Lord of the Rings?
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13. Language Fun Fact
How many imaginary
languages are there in
Lord of the Rings?
Answer: 12

14. Language Fun Fact
How many thousands
of dialects are there
on the planet?
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15. Language Fun Fact
How many thousands
of dialects are there
on the planet?
Answer: 7 – More
than 7,000 dialets

16. Language Fun Fact
What is the oldest
known word in the
English language?
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17. Language Fun Fact
What is the oldest
known word in the
English language?
Answer: “I”

18. Language Fun Fact
What is it called when a
word spelled backwards
creates another word?
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19. Language Fun Fact
What is it called when a
word spelled backwards
creates another word?
Answer:
Semordnilap

20. Language Fun Fact
What is the most prevalent
Native American language
spoken in the US?
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21. Language Fun Fact
What is the most prevalent
Native American language
spoken in the US?
Answer: Navajo

22. Language Fun Fact
Which one English word
contains 10 words without
rearranging any letter?
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23. Language Fun Fact
Which one English word
contains 10 words without
rearranging any letter?
Answer: Therein

24. Language Fun Fact
English is the official
language of how
many countries?
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25. Language Fun Fact
English is the official
language of how
many countries?
Answer: 54

26. Language Fun Fact
How many hundreds of
thousands of translators
are there in the world?
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27. Language Fun Fact
How many hundreds of
thousands of translators
are there in the world?
Answer: 3 – More
than 300,000

28. Language Fun Fact
How many millions of
pieces of content are
shared online each day?
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29. Language Fun Fact
How many millions of
pieces of content are
shared online each day?
Answer: 27 million

30. Language Fun Fact
What was the first
computer-based social
community called?
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31. Language Fun Fact
What was the first
computer-based social
community called?
Answer: Bulletin
Board System (BBS)

32. Language Fun Fact
What was the first website
that let users create profiles
and add friends?
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33. Language Fun Fact
What was the first website
that let users create profiles
and add friends?
Answer:
TheGlobe.com

34. Language Fun Fact
Other than English and
Spanish, what is the most
common language spoken
in Ohio homes?
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35. Language Fun Fact
Other than English and
Spanish, what is the most
common language spoken
in Ohio homes?
Answer: German

36. Language Fun Fact
What language is the
most taught in colleges
after English and
Spanish?
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37. Language Fun Fact
What language is the
most taught in colleges
after English and
Spanish?
Answer: German

38. Language Fun Fact
What year was the first
e-novel published?
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39. Language Fun Fact
What year was the first
e-novel published?
Answer: 2000

40. Language Fun Fact
South Africa has how
many official languages
– the most for a single
country?
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41. Language Fun Fact
South Africa has how
many official languages
– the most for a single
country?
Answer: 12

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