The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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