Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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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 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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