The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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