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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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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