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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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