French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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