Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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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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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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