I apologize for once finding this list online but being unable to locate and credit it now.
I knew a few of these little-known definitions—not many. I’m not sure if they are all real or if a few are made up. If so, their originators are creative. Read this list and check your score.
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 shoelaces is called an aglet.
4. The rumbling of a 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 holding the cork in a bottle of champagne is called an agraffe.
12. The ‘na na na’ and ‘la la la’, which don’t have 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. (I had no idea. Most editors I know would mark that wrong.)
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. (Some people call it worse.)
17. Unreadable hand-writing is called griffonage.
18. The dot over an “i” or a “j” is called tittle, as in “jot and tittle”.
19. That utterly sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much is called crapulence. (Seriously? Yes.)
20. The metallic device used to measure feet at the shoe store is called Bannock device.
How many did you know? Should they be accepted and circulated as given? ) Or modernized? Feel free to offer improvements or suggest more. Wishing you a healthy, non-crapulent few weeks (as I shake my head).
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