Languages that die out every month: 2
Approximate words added to English every year: 2,500
Average length, in words, of a New York Times sentence in 1956: 21.0
Average length, in words, of a New York Times sentence in 1996: 32.2
Daily clicks on Language Log website redirecting people who have Googled "wedding vowels": 30
Years, in trillions, for a monkey typing randomly to produce a 20-letter Shakespeare passage: 462,060,000,000,000,000
Sources: National Public Radio; Geoffrey Nunberg; Language Log
