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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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    The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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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 taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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    The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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    '⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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