Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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