Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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