The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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