Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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