"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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