Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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