Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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