Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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 word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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