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    There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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    The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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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    More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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