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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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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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    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 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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    The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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    The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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