In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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