100 Mind-Blowing Phrases Facts

Scotland has over 400 words to refer to snow. One of Scotland’s three official languages has a great extent of expressive phrases for snow. A few of these words include snaw (snow) and flindrinkin (light snow showers).

The most difficult phrases to create are palindromes. These are sentences that read the same when reading backwards. Language experts state that forming an understandable sentence using palindrome is extremely difficult. A few examples include “Redrum, sir, is murder” and “He lived as a devil, eh?”.

Talking uses 100 muscles. Introverts, you’re all valid. Talking is a chore – not just mentally, but physically. To form a few phrases, the body must use 100 different muscles from the chest, neck, jaw, tongue, and lips. Imagine how buff and chatty people would be if these muscles bulked up too?

The world-famous British playwright Shakespeare added more than 1,700 new words and phrases to the English language.

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