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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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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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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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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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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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