The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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