The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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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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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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