A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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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
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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