Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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