Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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