According to a 2009 study by researchers at Reading University, the oldest words in the English language include “I“, “we“, “who“, “two” and “three“, all of which date back tens of thousands of years.

Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi lived in Baghdad, around 780 to 850 CE (or AD). He was one of the first to write about algebra (using words, not letters). Around 825 he wrote the book “Hisab Al-jabr w’al-muqabala”, from which we get the word algebra (meaning ‘restoration of broken parts’).

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Isaac Newton said that we are merely occupying time, he also says that humans can only understand relative time. Relative time is a measurement of objects in motion. The anti-realists believed that time is merely a convenient intellectual concept for humans to understand events. Time is not an empirical concept.

The general consensus is that Sumerian was the first written language, developed in southern Mesopotamia around 3400 or 3500 BCE. At first, the Sumerians would make small tokens out of clay representing goods they were trading. Later, they began to write these symbols on clay tablets.

The word is of Hebrew origin(it is found in the 30th chapter of Exodus). Also according to Wiki answers,the first word ever uttered was “Aa,” which meant “Hey!” This was said by an australopithecine in Ethiopia more than a million years ago.

Cuneiform is an ancient writing system that was first used in around 3400 BC. Distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, cuneiform script is the oldest form of writing in the world, first appearing even earlier than Egyptian hieroglyphics.

The oldest named deity from a textual source that I know is is Inana, a Sumerian goddess of fertility and war. We have a pictographic symbol of her that dates from 3200 BC which would come to be the basis for her cuneiform name during the Jamdet Nasr period.

Fart

The word fart has been incorporated into the colloquial and technical speech of a number of occupations, including computing. It is often considered unsuitable in formal situations as it may be considered vulgar or offensive.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary, this 45-letter word for a disease is the longest English word that is defined in a major dictionary. It’s a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.

‘Moist’ – a word apparently despised the world over – is about to be named the worst word in the English language. The word has emerged as a clear frontrunner in a global survey conducted by Oxford Dictionaries.

Least Common English Words

• abate: reduce or lesson.
• abdicate: give up a position.
• aberration: something unusual, different from the norm.
• abhor: to really hate.
• abstain: to refrain from doing something.
• adversity: hardship, misfortune.
• aesthetic: pertaining to beauty.
• amicable: agreeable.

OK is an editorial joke run wild It’s just 150 years old, and traces its roots back to 19th century Boston. Rather than anyone purposefully inventing “OK,” it’s actually editorial joke that inadvertently went viral. It all began in the office of Charles Gordon Greene at the Boston Morning Post, Good Magazine writes.

The word “OK” is all caps (i.e., capitalized) because it is not the full word “okay.” The word “okay” does not qualify for even an initial capital. The word “OK” is what is called an “abbreviation,” and the capital letters make abbreviations and acronyms stand out amid regular text.

OK stands for ‘oll korrect’, or ‘ole kurreck’, and comes from an abbreviation trend which was popular in Boston, MA, back in the 1830s.

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While many countries have not officially adopted the word in their language, it is said and written just the same. As you can see, this word really does seem to be universal, so fear not if traveling abroad; you will still be able to communicate (as long as everything is OKAY)!

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Al-Khwarizmi

• The Golden Ratio (phi = φ) is often called The Most Beautiful Number In The Universe.
• 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144…
• 89/55 = 1.618.
• 144/89 = 1.618.
• 233/144 = 1.618.
• 377/233 = 1.618.
• 610/377 = 1.618.
• 987/610 = 1.618.

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• 911 is most recognizable as the number to call for emergencies.
• 7 is the number most commonly designated as people’s favorite.
• 73 is Sheldon Cooper’s favorite number (on the TV show The Big Bang Theory).
• 10 is most famous because it’s usually the number of items on “top” or “most” lists!

We all learned that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is called pi and that the value of this algebraic symbol is roughly 3.14.

Therefore the number 6174 is the only number unchanged by Kaprekar’s operation — our mysterious number is unique. The number 495 is the unique kernel for the operation on three digit numbers, and all three digit numbers reach 495 using the operation.

Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown (black holes). It usually has a negative connotation (blacklist, black humor, ‘black death’). In heraldry, black is the symbol of grief.

New research out of the University of Rochester found that guys think a woman is more interested in sex when she’s wearing red. For their study, scientists showed men a pic of a woman wearing a red T-shirt, and another of her wearing a white T-shirt.

Apparently blue is the most popular color in the world. It is associated with competence, intelligence and trustworthiness.

And of course, green is, as the saying goes, ‘the color of money’ (US money, that is) and therefore associated with wealth and stability.

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Yellow symbolizes happiness and warmth in almost all cultures. It’s the color that grabs users’ attention more than any other color. McDonald’s and IKEA both use yellow in their branding to give off the feeling of friendliness and positivity.

YInMn blue is so bright and perfect that it almost doesn’t look real. It’s the non-toxic version of the world’s most popular favorite color: blue. Some people are calling this hue the best color in the world.

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The world’s most beautiful animals

• Swan.
• Albino peacock.
• Dolphin.
• Mandarinfish.
• Chameleon.
• Fresian horse.
• Siberian Husky.
• Glasswinged butterfly.

Pantone 448 C, also referred to as “the ugliest colour in the world”, is a colour in the Pantone colour system.

Sad colors Grey is the quintessential sad color, but dark and muted cool colors like blue, green or neutrals like brown or beige can have a similar effect on feelings and emotions depending on how they’re used.

Purple

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Light Blue – Sloth Sloth is the act of being lazy or idle.

Sloth: light blue and goat. Greed: yellow and frog. Gluttony: pink and pig.

Yellow

Blue

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