Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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