Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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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