A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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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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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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