'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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