· The phrase "honeymoon" came from the Greeks. It was customary for the bride's family to supply the groom with a month (or full moon cycle) of the wedding wine, which tasted like honey.
· The word "Oral-B" is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better.
· Graffito is the little-used singular of the much used plural word graffiti.
· Orange and black became Halloween colors because orange is associated with harvests and black is associated with death "Hallow" is an old word meaning holy, while "e'en" is Scottish for evening.
· The word "alphabet" Comes from the first 2 letters of the Greek alphabet, Alpha and Beta.
· Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
· The word 'Checkmate' in chess comes from the Persian phrase 'Shah Mat,' which means 'the king is dead'.
· There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
· President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
· First newspaper crossword puzzle was published in a Sunday supplement to the New York World in 1913
· The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
· The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
· "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
· The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
· Did you know that the words 'lakh' and 'crore' do not exist in the English language? The two words are only used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and are derivatives of the Hindi words laakh and karod.
· The scientific term for nose-picking is "rhinotillexonamia".
· In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
· Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
· Know what Mafia means? "Morte Allafrancia Italia Anela "Death to the French is Italy's cry!"
· A fireplace is called a mantelpiece because, at one time, people hung their coats over the fireplace to dry them.
· The "left bank" of a river is the left side as you look downstream
· The Rx sign that pharmacists use was originally the astrological sign for Jupiter
· Taresthesia is what you call it when your foot falls asleep
· The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
· Women who wink at men are known as "nictitating" women
· The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
· Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil
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