In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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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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