The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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