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    In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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