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    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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    A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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    There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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