The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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 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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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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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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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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