"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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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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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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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