The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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