'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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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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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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