"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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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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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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 word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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