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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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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