DID YOU KNOW
THESE THINGS HAD NAMES?
1. The space
between your eyebrows is called a glabella.
2. The way
it smells after the rain is called petrichor.
3. The
plastic or metallic coating at the end of your
shoelaces is
called an aglet.
4. The
rumbling of the stomach is actually called a wamble.
5. The cry
of a newborn baby is called a vagitus.
6. The
prongs on a fork are called tines.
7. The sheen
or light that you see when you close your eyes
and press
your hands on them is called phosphenes.
8. The tiny
plastic table placed in the middle of a pizza box
is called a
box tent.
9. The day
after tomorrow is called overmorrow.
10. Your
tiny toe or finger is called minimus.
‘I1. The wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne is called an agraffe.
12. The 'na
na na' and ‘la la la‘, which don't really have any meaning in the lyrics of any
song, are called vocables.
13. When you
combine an exclamation mark with a question mark (like this ?!), it is referred
to as an interrobang.
14. The
space between your nostrils is called columella nasi
15. The
armhole in clothes, where the sleeves are sewn, is called armscye.
16. The
condition of finding it difficult to get out of the bed in the morning is
called dysania.
17.
illegible hand-writing is called griffonage.
18. The dot
over an "i" or a "j" is called tittle.
19. That
utterly sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too rnuch is called
crapulence.
20. The
metallic device used to measure your feet at the shoe store is called Bannock
device.
Who knew, I sure did not.
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