The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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