The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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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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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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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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