The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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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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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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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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