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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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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