BBC News - 10 things we didn't know last week

[Victor Steinbok]

Not unexpectedly, several of these are language related:
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> 1. In Scrabble, a Benjamin is a three-letter extension to the front of
> a five-letter word.
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> http://goo.gl/8PCDxA
>
> ...
> 3. Jazz apples are actually called Scifresh, and Pink Lady is the
> trademark name for Cripps Pinks.
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> http://goo.gl/uNME8N
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> ...
>
> 8. The working-class white accent of New Orleans is affectionately
> known as "Yat", from the local greeting "Where y'at?"
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> http://goo.gl/G6nqtB
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> 9. Reasons for a person to be committed to an insane asylum in
> Virginia in the 1800s included novel reading and "desertion by husband".
>
> http://goo.gl/G6nqtB
> ...
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