In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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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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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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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 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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