The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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