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[Language fact 1] 800 different languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city on Earth.
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[Language fact 2] The Cagots were a group of people that did not differ in race, language, or culture from the people around them and despite this, they were hated and persecuted for centuries, and historians still aren't sure why.
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[Language fact 3] There is a difference between a Fire Engine and a Fire Truck. A Fire Engine's main purpose is to pump water. A Fire Truck usually carries ladders and tools to help the firefighters.
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[Language fact 4] The apples in the phrase "how do you like them apples" refer to World War 1 trench mortars nicknamed "toffee apples" used by the British.
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[Language fact 5] Russians have a word "Zapoi" to describe several days of continuous drunkenness during which one withdraws from society.
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[Language fact 6] Nikola Tesla could speak eight languages: Serbo-Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and even Latin.
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[Language fact 7] 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.
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[Language fact 8] Yea and Nay don't mean exactly the same as Yes and No. They were for questions posed in the positive whereas yes and no were for questions in the negative. So answering "yes" to "don't you like it?" always meant you did like it. This removes ambiguity.
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[Language fact 9] The term “lawn mullet” means having a neatly manicured front yard and an unmowed mess in the back.
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[Language fact 10] There is a short German rhyme about procrastination that also rhymes when translated into English. "Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen leute." in English means "Later, later, not today, all the lazy people say."
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