The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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