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100 Quick-fire Word Facts

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Who was the first to 'spill the beans'? | SAYINGS EXPLAINED

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Why are we saying 'Caesar' wrong? | TITLES & POWER

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What does 'dinosaur' literally mean? | DINOSAURS

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What is the 'Eng' in 'England'? | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS

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Why do news anchors all sound the same? | NEWS WORDS

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How could one man write a dictionary? | SAMUEL JOHNSON

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Why is it called a 'cockpit'? | AVIATION WORDS

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How did currencies get their names? | MONEY WORD ORIGINS

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Does English use the wrong word for clouds? | WEATHER WORDS

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Exposing grammar myths and mistakes with Grammar Girl

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Why is English full of French words?

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Precisely how long is a 'moment'? | TIME WORDS

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What was the original "blockbuster"? | MOVIE WORDS

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Why is there a cat in "caterpillar"? | BUG WORDS

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Why is the Pope "the daddy"?

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Why do Brits think 'pants' are underwear? | CLOTHING WORDS

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Why is there an N in "passenger"?

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Why do we say "as mad as a hatter"? | IDIOM ORIGINS

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Is it a restroom or a loo?

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Did Shakespeare write all his plays?

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How do you pronounce lieutenant? | MILITARY WORDS

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Why do we mind our Ps and Qs? | PRINTING TERMS

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Where do swear words come from?

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Which flower makes you wet the bed? | FLOWER NAME ORIGINS

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Is this a rhetorical question? | RHETORIC & LITERARY DEVICES

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How did our naughty bits get their names? | BODY ETYMOLOGY

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What's the difference between a violin and a fiddle? | MUSIC WORDS

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Who invented zero? | MATH & NUMBERS

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Who was the original "goodfella"? | CRIME WORDS

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Who was the first to "paint the town red"? | IDIOM ORIGINS

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Is he Santa Claus or Father Christmas? | FESTIVE WORD ORIGINS

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What did a "sin-eater" do? | JOB ETYMOLOGY

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Is it a 'full stop' or a 'period'? | PUNCTUATION

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Is corporate jargon "a value add"? | JARGON ETYMOLOGY

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Who is the Jack in a deck of cards? | GAME WORDS

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Which cocktail means "moist little thing"? | BOOZY WORDS

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How can "tree" and "truth" be related? | WOODLAND WORDS

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How are people using "mortified" wrongly? | EMOTION ETYMOLOGY

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What's the 'were' in werewolf? | SPOOKY ETYMOLOGY

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Why does oxygen have the wrong name? | ELEMENTS

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What is antidisestablishmentarianism? | THE LONGEST WORDS

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Why are you a nincompoop? | INSULTS

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Do geese see god? | PALINDROMES

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Why is the word "dog" such a mystery? | ANIMAL WORDS

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What mystery did the original "clue" solve? | MYTHOLOGY WORDS

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Can a word be its own opposite? | CONTRONYMS

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Do "vegetables" technically exist? | FOOD WORDS

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What exactly is a "petard"? | FOSSIL WORDS

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Have you ever had the mulligrubs? | LOST WORDS

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How did the planets get their names? | SPACE WORDS

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Did the Greeks have no word for blue? COLOR WORDS

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The battle between British and American English

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Was an orange ever a "norange"? | PORTMANTEAUS & WORD MASHUPS

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What's poopy about a poop deck? | NAUTICAL ETYMOLOGY

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Can you be gormful, wistless or ert? | LOST POSITIVES

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Why is it a "murder" of crows? | COLLECTIVE NOUNS

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Is "posh" really an acronym? | WORD MYTHS

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Are you getting these wrong too? | EGGCORNS

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Why do we say "hello"?

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