Did you know these things had names?
- The space between your eyebrows is called a glabella.
- The way it smells after the rain is called petrichor.
- The plastic or metallic coating at the end of your shoelaces is called an aglet.
- The rumbling of stomach is actually called a wamble.
- The cry of a newborn baby is called a vagitus.
- The prongs on a fork are called tines.
- The sheen or light that you see when you close your eyes and press your hands on them is called phosphenes.
- The tiny plastic table placed in the middle of a pizza box is called a box tent.
- The day after tomorrow is called overmorrow.
- Your tiny toe or finger is called minimus.
- The wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne is called an agraffe.
- The “na na na” and “la la la,” which don’t really have any meaning in the lyrics of any song, are called vocables.
- An exclamation mark paired with a question mark (like this: ?!) is referred to as an interrobang.
- The space between your nostrils is called columella nasi.
- The armhole in clothes, where the sleeves are sewn, is called armscye.
- The condition of finding it difficult to get out of the bed in the morning is called dysania.
- Illegible hand-writing is called griffonage.
- The dot over an “i” is called a tittle.
- That utterly sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much is called crapulence.
- The metallic device used to measure your feet at the shoe store is called Bannock device.
How many of the above did you already know?
Source: facebook.com/English Literature11
