The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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 words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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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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