The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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 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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