"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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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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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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