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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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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