Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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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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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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