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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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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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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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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