Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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