Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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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 "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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