The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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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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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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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