The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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