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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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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