"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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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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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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