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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 name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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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 word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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    The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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