The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
84
'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
69
Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
59
The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
25
Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
2
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
60
A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
10