The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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