Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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The United States does not have an official language.
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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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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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