The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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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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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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