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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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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