The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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 Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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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