The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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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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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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