French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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