China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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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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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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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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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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