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The word "salary" comes from Latin "salarium", originally meaning “money given for salt.”
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In English today, the word "literally" is often used as an "intensifier", even when something is not literal.
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banana
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magnet
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shark
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banana
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magnet
Take 25 points!
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shark
Other team loses 25 points!
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In English, the plural of "tooth" is "teeth", not "tooths".
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In Modern English, "go" has the irregular past tense "went".
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Today, the word cool is often used to mean “fashionable” or “good.”
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The word computer once meant “a person who calculates”; today it refers to a machine
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In Old English, the plural of "house" was "hus" with a different vowel, but today it is "houses".
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The word PEN originally meant a FEATHER used for writing
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The word nice used to mean “foolish” in Middle English, but today it means “pleasant.”
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The word mouse can mean both an animal and a computer device in Modern English.
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gift
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The word "broadcast" originally referred to "scattering seeds" in a field; now it means "transmitting radio/TV programs".
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The word girl once meant “a young person”, but now it means “a female child.”
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In modern English the word GREEN can mean the COLOR or ECOLOGICALLY FRIENDLY
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