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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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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