The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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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 word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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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 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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