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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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    The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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    The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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    The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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