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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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    The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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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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    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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