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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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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