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 dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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