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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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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