The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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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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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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