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    There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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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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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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