"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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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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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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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