Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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