The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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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 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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