Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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