"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
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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 six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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