[Language fact 1] The symbol ⸮ has been proposed as a punctuation mark to denote irony since the 1580s.
[Language fact 2] The dot over your lowercase “i” is called a tittle.
[Language fact 3] In 1994, students in Kaktovik, Alaska created a new system of numerals to reflect the way counting is done in their language: in base 20. The system is relatively easy to learn and even makes basic math easier. It has since been widely adopted in Inupiaq communities.
[Language fact 4] The phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” isn’t a line from Shakespeare. It’s a paraphrase from a play by William Congreve. The full line is, “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
[Language fact 5] We call people with red hair "redheads" as opposed to "orange heads" because the phrase has been around longer than the color orange. The color orange was described as red up until the 1500s when the first reference of orange in the English language can be found.
[Language fact 6] The gender-neutral "they" was used as the 3rd person singular in English until about 1800, when "he" and "she" became widespread to make English more like Latin.
[Language fact 7] The phrase '23 Skidoo', meaning "let's get out of here", was America's first truly national fad expression.
[Language fact 8] In the 1820s, a Cherokee named Sequoyah, impressed by European written languages, invented a writing system with 85 characters that were considered superior to the English alphabet. The Cherokee syllabary could be learned in a few weeks and by 1825 the majority of Cherokees could read and write.
[Language fact 9] During World War 1, 'f*cking’ and ‘bloody’ were used as palliatives, so that the order to ‘get your f*cking rifles’ was recognised as considerably less urgent than the order to ‘get your rifles.’
[Language fact 10] In August 2016, a defendant named John Hennigan in the UK called a judge a "bit of a c*nt" and the judge replied with "you're a bit of a c*nt yourself".
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