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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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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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    Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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    The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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