The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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 sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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