The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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