The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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