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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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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