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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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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