Groupon Says
America's Youngest Letter
The letter e is America's youngest letter, first incorporated in the mid-19th century, some 2,600 years after the rest of the Latin alphabet. E quickly rocketed into regular use and in no time was named "America's Best Letter" in a poll of landowning children who previously could not have even formed the words that make up that title. To capitalize on the letter's popularity, numerous words added the in-demand grapheme in unnecessary ways, leading to spellings such as "grille," "shoppe," and "floccinaucinihilipilificatione."
E also allowed for the development of the past tense by adding the suffix "-ed" to many verbs. Before this breakthrough, discussion and even thoughts of the past were linguistically impossible, and repeating past mistakes, specifically electing horses to office, was unavoidable.
If you are a quick study, you may have noticed that the previous paragraph has an atypical feature: none of the words contain the letter e. If you take the time to look, you'll find this isn't true.
