Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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 taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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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