"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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 Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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