Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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 name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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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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