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    The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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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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    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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    In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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    The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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