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Ood9X
TIL about “dissimilation.” A linguistic phenomenon where people tend to drop an R if it is in the middle of a word and comes before another syllable that has an R. Ex.“suprise”/“surprise,”/“forward”“forward,” /“catepillar”/“caterpillar,” and “paticular”/“particular.”
Me5BK
TIL clue used to be spelled "clew". This was due to clew meaning "a ball of twine" which was symbolic of following the string through a maze and helping find "the way" or "an answer".
b9VE9
TIL people with orange hair are called "redheads" because in many languages the first colors to be named are black, white, and red. Thus the word "orange" didn't exist in the English language until the fruit arrived in England around 480 years ago. The orange hair gene has existed for 70,000 years.