The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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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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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter b
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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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 word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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