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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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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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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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