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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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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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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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    The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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    Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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