A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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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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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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