Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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