"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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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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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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