A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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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