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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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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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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