The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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