Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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