"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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