"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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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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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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