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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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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