The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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 word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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