The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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 sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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