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 word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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