The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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