The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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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 "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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