The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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 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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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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