The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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