Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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 equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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