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The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked.
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- The word gargoyle comes down from the Old French: gargouille, meaning throat or gullet. This is also the origin of the word gargle. The word describes ...
- The English word soup comes from the Middle Ages word sop, which means a slice of bread over which roast drippings were poured. ...
- The Great Lakes have a combined area of 94,230 square miles larger than the states ...
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- The combination ough can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: A rough-coated, ...
