The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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