Theodor Geisel’s (Dr. Seuss) editor, Bennett Cerf, challenged him to write a book using 50 words or less.  He made this challenge when Seuss was writing The Cat in the Hat (which used 225 words) but Geisel didn’t back down from the challenge and wrote Green Eggs and Ham with exactly 50 different words.  Those words are:
a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.

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