According to the World Health Organisation, Spain is the noisiest country in Europe, and Madrid is one of the noisiest capitals. (In fact Spain is the second noisiest country in the world, behind Japan. Most of the noise comes from traffic, such as cars, heavy lorries and noisy motorbikes and mopeds. This is closely followed […]

However, before you laugh too much, we may have little pink eyed overlords before we know it:- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/human-language-gene-mice-study_n_5829748.html

Oxford University Press are publishing the world's largest thesaurus. It's taken them 40 years to compile the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which is published in two volumes, and is 4,500 pages long. It contains 800,000 meanings split into 236,000 categories and sub-categories. But don't worry, you don't have to memorise them all.

According to the UN's cultural agency UNESCO, of the 6,900 languages spoken in the world, some 2,500 are endangered. We've already lost Manx in the Isle of Man, Ubykh in Turkey and last year Alaska's last native speaker of Eyak, Marie Smith Jones, died. An endangered language is a language that is at risk of […]