Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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