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 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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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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