Did You Know?:The 1939 novel Gadsby is the longest book ever published that doesn’t contain the letter ‘e.’

Back in 1939, American author Ernest Vincent Wright published Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel that doesn’t use the letter ‘e’ once. What’s more, it’s not the only novel that ditched the letter. Author Georges Perec also wrote the French-language book La Disparition without the letter ‘e’ in 1969. That’s even more astounding when you consider that ‘e’ is the most commonly used letter in the English (and French!) language. And these are the 23 Words You Need to Stop Mispronouncing.