Harry’s Ramblings. Strange Words
by Harry Pope
I thought I would share these with you.
- The space between your eyebrows is called a gabella
- 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 your stomach is actually called a wamble
- The cry of a new born 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 a 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
- When you combine an exclamation mark with a question mark (like this ?!) is referred to as an interrobang
- The space between your nostrils is called columelia 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” or a “j” is called 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
What is very interesting is that this laptop has a spell-check, and not one of those words when I wrote them told me that they were not in the dictionary.