Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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