Interesting Word - Ukraine
The word "Ukraine" can be translated into English as "close to the edge". (It can be formed from Russian or Polish with u which can mean "close" or "at" and krai which means "edge" or "border". )
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Interesting Fact - Languages
According to Jakob Uszkoreit, a senior engineer at Google, over 100,000 American students take the National Latin Exam every year. (With the launch of an additional Latin function into Google translate, it seems we can now read those ancient texts and even listen to Latin pronunciation. So who says it's a dead language?)
Interesting Fact # 520 - Translation
The European Parliament employs over 1,000 translators. (It has the largest translation department in the world. With over 23 languages in Europe this isn't very surprising.)