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• Just 43 words account for half of all words commonly used, and of those, just nine account for a quarter of the words used: and, be, have, it, of, the, to, will, you. • About half of all words in use are nouns. The most commonly used verbs are: say, get, go, know, think, see, make, come, take, want, give, and mean. • There are 44 distinct sounds in English, divided equally between vowels and consonants. The Italian language has only 27 sounds, and Hawaiian only 13. • The most common vowel sound in English is called the “schwa” and it’s a cross between “eh” and “uh” as in the second syllable of the word “animal.” Nearly every multisyllabic word contains that sound. • The letter combination of “ough” has more pronunciations than any other: bough, bought, cough, dough, hiccough, rough, thoroughbred, through, and trough. The single syllable with the most different ways of spelling it is “air” which can be spelled 38 different ways, including ere, heir, ayr, aire, are, ear, etc. (continued next page)

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• About half of all English words came from other languages, and English absorbed words from about 350 different languages. Here are a few samples: • “Mobile vulgus” is Latin for “fickle crowd” and was shortened into our “mob.” • The phrase “poppycock” originally started as a Dutch word meaning “soft dung.” • “Bonanza” comes from the Spanish word meaning “prosperity.” • The Norse phrase “vind-auga” meaning “eye of the wind” became the word “window.” • “Exchequer” is French for the counting table where the king’s revenue was piled up and totaled and gives us the word “check.” • “Curmudgeon” started out as the French “coeur méchant” meaning “evil heart.” • “Mayday” came from the French “m’aidez” meaning “help me.” • The Italian “banca rotto” meaning “broken bench” became the English word “bankrupt” because when a banker in the open air markets of Italy ran out of money, his bench was broken. • “Hodgepodge” comes from “hochepot,” a French legal term that originally meant gathering things in order to divide them equally; then it came to mean a dish combining a number of ingredients. • In Latin, the word “bullire” meant “to boil” or bubble. That word went into Old Italian as “garbuglio” meaning “a mess” and that went into Italian as “garbuzo” which was adopted by the Normans who took it to England where it became the word “garbage.” • In the 1500s there was a silver mine near the town of Joachimsthal, Germany. Silver coins minted from silver mined there were first called “Joachimsthaler” which was shortened to “thaler” before being transformed into “daler” before becoming our “dollar.” Cont'd next page!

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• In rainforests of Australia and Indonesia,

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• Acrobat Peter Conklin was running the concessions for Mabie’s Mighty Circus in the south in 1857. One afternoon was so hot that they ran out of the primary ingredient in lemonade: water. Peter reportedly ran over to the tent of the trick bareback rider Fannie Jamieson. She had been soaking her red tights and red sequined outfit in a tub of water. The water was colored red from the dye. “Red dye never hurt anybody,” Peter said, and commandeered the tub of pink water over her protests. The resulting lemonade was hawked as the world’s only guaranteed pink lemonade, and it sold so well that Conklin colored his lemonade pink from then on. He called it strawberry lemonade. Now days pink lemonade is usually made by adding grape juice.

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• Humans have enjoyed eating popcorn since ancient times. Throughout history there have been a variety of different ways to pop the popcorn ranging from clay pots buried in coals to wire baskets held above flames. But in 1885 in Chicago, Charlie Cretors invented a better popcorn popper. Merchants often had popcorn stands located in front of their business to draw customers, but they were not mobile. Charlie wanted to be able to take his popcorn popper to where ever there was a crowd gathered: fairs, theaters, picnics, beaches. So he invented a portable popper that could be either pushed by foot, pulled by horse, or mounted on a truck. Today the Cretors Company still manufactures mobile popcorn poppers and other concessions. Check out the popcorn popper next time you go to the fair or the theater. Chances are, it was made by Cretors.

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● Feb. 5, 1917, Congress overrides President Woodrow Wilson’s veto and passes the Immigration Act, requiring a literacy test for immigrants.

● On Feb. 1, 1951, the United Nations General Assembly condemns the communist government of the People’s Republic of China for acts of aggression in Korea. It was the first time the United Nations condemned a nation.

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