The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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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 taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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