Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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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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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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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 word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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