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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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    The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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    There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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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 Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
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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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