There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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 sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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