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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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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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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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