The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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