Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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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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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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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 onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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