Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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