The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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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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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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