In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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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 word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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