Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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