Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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