The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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