Spoonerisms — transposing initial sounds of words — are named after Rev. William Spooner who famously made them.

Sanskrit has the most perfect grammatical structure ever analyzed by linguists.

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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words still used today including 'bedroom,' 'lonely,' and 'obscene.'

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There is a word in Japanese, 'tsundoku', meaning buying books and never reading them.

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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words in the English language, including 'lonely,' 'generous,' and 'assassination.'

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The alphabet is a Greek invention — the Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician consonant alphabet around 800 BC.

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The ampersand (&) was once the 27th letter of the English alphabet.

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Spoonerisms — transposing initial sounds of words — are named after Rev. William Spooner who famously made them.

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The world's shortest alphabet, Rotokas, has only 12 letters.

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