The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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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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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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