Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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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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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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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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