The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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