The name WENDY didn't exist until James Barrie wrote Peter Pan and used it for 'fwendy'

A CAMPAIGN to drink CHAMPAGNE would be interesting since both words share the Latin origin of 'campus', meaning open field

The word SAMBA means 'to rub navels together'

The only number with its letters in alphabetical order is FORTY

NONPLUS, meaning to bewilder, originally meant 'put into a position where 'no more' (Latin non plus) can be done

No English words rhyme with ORANGE, SILVER or PURPLE

BLIGHTY, meaning England to overseas Englishmen, comes from 'bilayati', (foreign)

The word KARATE means 'empty hand'

The only common English word with all its vowels in a row is QUEUING

'Calends', the first day of the Roman month when debts became due, gave rise to the word CALENDAR