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  • The (you are here arrow) on a map is called the IDEO locator.

  • The act of doing more than what is required or expected is called "supererogation,"

  • The act of snapping one's fingers has a name. It is called a "fillip".

  • The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."

  • The cubit is the oldest known measurement, appearing in the Bible when God gives Noah instructions for the ark. Described as a ROYAL CUBIT, it was measured from the elbow to the thumb knuckle. It was a means of insuring that the nobility got a larger share at the market place.

  • The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a tittle. Tittle is Latin for something very small.

  • The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.

  • The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured in the U.S. annually. If these were laid end to end they would circle the earth nine times.

  • The ball on top of a flagpole is called a "truck.

  • The British call a large umbrella, especially one that is bulky or awkwardly wrapped, a "gamp." 

  • The words "naked" and "nude" are not the same. Naked implies unprotected. Nude means unclothed.

  • The words CHOICE COD read the same when held in front of a mirror upside-down. This also applies to the word DIOXIDE.

  • There are 293 different ways to make change for a dollar.

  • There is a town in Sweden called "A" and a town in France called "Y".

  • What is called a "French kiss" in England and America is known as an "English kiss" in France.

  • There are no words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver, or purple.

  • There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, hazardous.

  • When sailors speak of sheets (as in "four sheets to the wind") they are not talking about sails. A sheet in nautical terminology is a rope or chain.

  • When the poetic name of Bangkok, capital of Thailand is used, it is usually abbreviated to "Krung Thep" (City of Angels) The full length version is the longest place name of any town or city in the world...(167 letters) Krung thep mahanakhon bovorn ratanakosin mahintharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani burirom udomratchanivetma hasathan amornpiman avatarnsa thit sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit.

  • When used by an ornithologist, the word "lore" refers to the space between a bird's eye and its bill.

  • A Jerusalem artichoke is not an artichoke, it is a sunflower.

  • A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called a "epithalamium."

  • A three letter, one-syllable word that becomes a three syllable word by adding one letter to the end of it: The word "are" has three letters and one syllable - "Area" has three syllables.

  • Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it - 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25.

  • Arabic numerals are not Arabic; they were invented in India.

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