In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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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 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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