'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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