Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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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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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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