The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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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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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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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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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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 most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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