In Case You Were Wondering III

Sekkusu means "sex" in Japanese.
Spain literally means "the land of rabbits."
The "You Are Here" arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.
The third year of marriage is the leather anniversary.
The abbreviation "e.g." stands for "exempli gratia," or "for example."
The abbreviation for pound "lb.," comes from the astrological sign Libra, meaning "balance."
The French term bourrage de crane for wartime propaganda means "brain stuffing."
 The infinity character on the keyboard is called a lemniscate.
The Japanese translation of switch is pronounced suitchi.
The name for fungal remains found in coal is Sclerotinite.
The phrase "jet lag" was once called boat lag, back before airplanes existed.
The Sanskrit word for war means "desire for more cows."
The slang word crap comes from T. Crapper, the man who invented the modern toilet.
The slash character is called virgule, or solidus. A URL uses slash characters, not backslash characters.
The word karate means "empty hand."
The word byte is a contraction of "by eight."
Trabant is the German word for "satellite."
Zorro means "fox" in Spanish.
A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
A group of officers is called a mess.
The next-to-last event is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.

SEMANTICS
Naked means "to be unprotected"; nude means "unclothed."
A hamlet is a village without a church, and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.