In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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