Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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