The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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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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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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