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English actually originates from what is now called north west Germany and the Netherlands.
The phrase “long time no see” is believed to be a literal translation of a Native American or Chinese phrase as it is not grammatically correct.
There’s a name for words and phrases where each letter is used the same number of times. An isogram is a word or phrase in which each letter appears the same number of times. For example, the word dialogue uses each letter once.
Some English words look the same upside down. An ambigram is a word that looks the same upside down as right-side up. A great example is the word “SWIMS” with all capitalized letters.
You can fit every letter of the alphabet into a single sentence. A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter from the alphabet. A very famous English pangram is: “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.”
Who was the first Home Minister of India?