The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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