Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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 word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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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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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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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