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 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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