In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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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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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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