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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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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