The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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