Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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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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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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