The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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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