"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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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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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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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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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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