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 Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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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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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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