Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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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 "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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