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 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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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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