"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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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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