China has more English speakers than the United States.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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