The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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