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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If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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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 word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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