The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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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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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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