A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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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 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 "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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