Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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