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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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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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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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    The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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