Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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