The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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