The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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