Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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