The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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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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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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