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 sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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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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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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