Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
63
'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
17
The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
40
The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
25
The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
120
More people in China speak English than in the United States.
121
There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
100
The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
6