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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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