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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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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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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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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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