The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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China has more English speakers than 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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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