Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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