English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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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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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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