Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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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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