The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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