There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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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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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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