English

For example, the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram.

Fact: No matter which country you're flying to or flying from, all aviation personnel — pilots, flight crews, and air traffic controllers — must pass a mandatory English proficiency test. English actually became the standardized language of air travel because the deadliest plane crash in history.

While these days "LOL" means "laugh out loud," back in the 1960s, an LOL was a "little old lady"! No kidding. Now just picture little old ladies laughing out loud. And while we might think of "OMG" as a product of internet or texting abbreviations, the first recorded instance of the acronym was in 1917, when Winston Churchill used it in a letter.

Is there a word that makes your skin crawl whenever you hear it? According to a 2016 poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, "whatever" was voted the most annoying word in the English language for the eighth year running.

This means that English is the official language of airplane travel. Ever noticed that no matter where you’re flying in the world, your pilot and flight attendants always know English? This is why!