In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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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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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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