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Friday 23 March 2007

The Names of Things

If you’re reduced to calling the tip of your shoelace a thingamajig, you might like to check out the list 33 Names of Things You Never Knew Had Names.

Here are a few of the spiffy names/definitions:

• keeper: the loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
• obdormition: the numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep’.
• rasceta: creases on the inside of the wrist.
• wamble: stomach rumbling.

I think my favourite is the hemidemisemiquaver.

Via The Presurfer.

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