"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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