The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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