The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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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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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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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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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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