Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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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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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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