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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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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 name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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    The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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