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 are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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 United States does not have an official language.
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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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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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