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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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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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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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of 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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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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