Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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