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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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    'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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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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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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