There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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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 word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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