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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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    Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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    In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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