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 word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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