The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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