"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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