The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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