Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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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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The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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