In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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