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 most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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