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’.
11. 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. Unreadable 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 much is called ‘crapulence’.
20. The metallic device used to measure your feet at the shoe store is called ‘Bannock’ device.