Wednesday, July 11, 2007

33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names - Wattpad

33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names is AWESOME:

"4. COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.

6. FEAT - A dangling curl of hair.

17. MINIMUS - The little finger or toe.

20. OCTOTHORPE - The symbol '#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.

24. PURLICUE - The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.

28. SCROOP - The rustle of silk.

32. WAMBLE - Stomach rumbling."

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