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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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