Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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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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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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