The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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