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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless. is a Language Fact in the Language Facts category.
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Fact Comments
327 days ago
Adz
Exellent actually comes from Excellente, assasination comes from Assassinat, both of which are French in origin. They are therefore, about as English as 'Democracy' and 'Republic' both being Démocratie and République in French.
277 days ago
Peter Hansen
And excellente and republique comes from Latin, democracy from ancient Greek, both belonging to Indo-European. Assasin comes from hashshashin, an Arabic word associated with the word hashish or hash.
190 days ago
Anonymous
WHAT A FACT/JOKE