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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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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