In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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