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  1. Cheeniya

    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    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 stomach is actually called a wamble.

    5. The cry of a new born 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. illegible handwriting 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 Brannock device.

    HOW MANY OF THE ABOVE DID YOU ALREADY KNOW?
     
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    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    I didn't know even a single one of these!
     
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    Uncle, Count me in:)!
     
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    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    @Mistt
    My dear Mistt
    We will easily be the majority :blush:
     
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    My dear Anna

    I also did not know. Thanks for sharing
     
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    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    My dear Viji
    If I come across anything good I always share it with you
    Sri
     
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    iyerviji Finest Post Winner

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    Very good.Thanks
     
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    :hello:Respected Sir,
    I am amazed of your quest to pick up difficult test for your fellow members in testing their word power and knowledge.
    2. With limited functional & recognition vocabulary and knowledge of words in ENGLISH we thrive on and here a test to make us jealous of your gray matter.
    3. I am glad to inform you that I have miserably failed - ZERO out of TWENTY- in the above test as I had never come across these words in the few hundreds of books that I had read in the past.
    4. In the past, there was a time I used to test my - my prowess with words - in “Word Power” that used to appear in monthly READERS’ Digest regularly but those ( new) words used to appear in various sections in that magazine articles itself and with little effort one could understand the contextual meaning.
    5. I have stray remembrance that such words A to Z answered elsewhere which could be either face book or and quora. But in case of communication with public, I prefer to use only simple words LIKE FAMOUS QUIT INDIA - so that it is understood by majority of them while difficult known words are always reserved to communicate with scholars and statesmen or leading academicians.
    6. Your this post, made me pensive of difficult words that has been recently coined and included in renowned lexicons.

    7. Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the ‘dative’ and ‘ablative’ plural of the medieval Latin word honōrificābilitūdinitās, which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours". It is mentioned by the character Costard in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost thanks to Wikipedia.

    Thanks and Regards.
     
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    Dear Cheeniya Sir,

    La la la la, na na na, - no nothing. These words sound French, Latin, no no Spanish to me. By the way, I am learning Spanish, online- “Mucho gusto, Gracias!” Pleased to meet you here, Thank you! Will learn more espanol and post a blog!

    Regards,

    Agatha83
     
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    Very interesting. Difficult to imagine there are words to describe all the above. Except for No. 15, the armscye, which I have heard of due to my passion for sewing and reading up tailoring books/material, everything else is unheard of.
     

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