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 Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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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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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter b
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