In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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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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