French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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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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