The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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 "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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