The United States does not have an official language.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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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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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 word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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