The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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 longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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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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