The shortest grammatically complete sentence in English is 'Go.' — subject implied.

The word 'dinosaur' means 'terrible lizard' — coined by Richard Owen in 1842.

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The dot over the lowercase letter 'i' is called a tittle.

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Esperanto has around 2 million speakers and was invented in 1887 by Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof.

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The word 'goodbye' is a contraction of 'God be with ye.'

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The word 'lethologica' describes the inability to remember the word you are trying to say.

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English has the most borrowed words of any language — absorbing vocabulary from over 350 languages.

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'Dreamt' is the only common English word that ends in 'mt'.

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The apostrophe was introduced into English in the 16th century — its rules have never been consistently applied.

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