Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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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 onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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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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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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