'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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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