Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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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 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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