Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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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 "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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