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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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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