[Language fact 1] Prolonged exposure to felt containing high levels of mercury would cause mental dysfunction in 18th-century hat makers, ushering in the phrase “As mad as a hatter.”
[Language fact 2] The meeting of presidents President Taft and Díaz in Mexico in 1909 was the first between a president of the United States and a president of Mexico. Because both presidents were bilingual there was no need for interpreters. No one else attended the meeting where they spent 20 minutes alone.
[Language fact 3] There are languages without the terms "Left, Right, Front, and Behind." These cultures use "North, South, East, and West" their whole lives no matter if they are in a room or in the woods. The result is a compass brain. They always know how they are oriented.
[Language fact 4] “Prisencolinensinainciusol,” is an Italian pop song that is full of Gibberish. It meant to sound like how English sounds to non-English speakers.
[Language fact 5] The phrase “Game of Thrones” is said only once on screen, and the speaker is Cersei Lannister. “When you play the game of thrones,” she says, “you either win or you die.”
[Language fact 6] The word “Wedding” originates from the Anglo-Saxon word “wedd” which meant wager or gamble.
[Language fact 7] Bangladesh has more total English speakers than Canada and that Nigeria has more total English speakers than in the UK.
[Language fact 8] The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac.
[Language fact 9] The American English expression "Okay" (or O.K.) is nearly identical to the expression "Okeh" from the Amerindian Choctaw-Chickasaw language, which first appeared in print a decade earlier and means "it is so and not otherwise."
[Language fact 10] The term "spam" meaning internet junk is derived from a Monty Python skit. Spam makers Hormel, while never happy with the use of the word spam for junk email, have been supportive of the sketch and issued a special tin of Spam for the Broadway premiere of Spamalot based on Monty Python.
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