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 sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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