A comprehensive list of sources used in the making of The Weird and Wonderful World of Words

Below is a comprehensive list of sources that were used to make this book. These have been arranged in the order the facts appeared:

Page 4: Words in a lifetime  – Huffington Post
Page 5: Average WPM – WordCounter.net
Page 6: World languages – Ethnologue
Page 8: Early humans – Noam Chomsky via Wikipedia
Page 10: Swearing birds – Treehugger
Page 11: Koko – Daily Mail
Page 12: Cuneiform – Ancient History Encyclopedia
Page 14: Top 5 – Babbel
Page 16: Dictionary – OED and QI
Page 17: New OED words – OED
Page 18: OMG – Huffington Post
Page 20: Titin the Titan – Gizmodo
Page 21: Ajay Shesh – Mumbai Newsbox
Page 22: ABC: Top 3 / Bottom 3 – OED
Page 23: Most common words – Global Language Monitor and OED and Collins Dictionary
Page 25: Age and vocab – The Economist
Page 26: Computer – Online Etymology Dictionary
Page 27: Cerberus – Online Etymology Dictionary
Page 28: Goodbye, Daisy – Online Etymology Dictionary and Online Etymology Dictionary
Page 32: Girl – Online Etymology Dictionary
Page 34: Fast talkers – Slate and Guinness World Records
Page 36: Sign language – Gallaudet University Library
Page 38: The letter ‘S’ – OED
Page 39: 4 words – Bored Panda
Page 40: Placenames – Wikipedia
Page 44: Ghosts – Grammarly
Page 45: Smog – Online Etymology Dictionary
Page 50: Language of the sky – Mental Floss
Page 52: No vowels – Collins English Dictionary
Page 53: Gadsby – Mental Floss
Page 55: Longest palindrome – Norvig.com
Page 56: Cicero – Fun With Words.com
Page 60: Words per day – ABC
Page 62: Sedgwick – Military History Now
Page 63: Mellon – Mental Floss

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