Everything has a name, however, some aren’t spoken often so aren’t known by many. In this article, I present to you the english names of 20 things I bet you didn’t know.<\/p>\n
1. Petrichor is the term used to describe the scent left behind by rain.<\/p>\n
2. A box tent is the name for the tiny plastic table that is positioned in the center of a pizza box.<\/p>\n
3. An aglet is the term for the plastic or metallic coating on the end of your shoelaces.<\/p>\n
4. The stomach grumbling is actually referred to as a wamble.<\/p>\n
5. A newborn baby’s cry is referred to as a vagitus.<\/p>\n
6. A fork’s tines are its prongs.<\/p>\n
7. Phosphenes are the sheen or light you see when you close your eyes and press your hands on them.<\/p>\n
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8. A glabella is the area between your eyebrows.<\/p>\n
9. Overmorrow is the term for the day after tomorrow.<\/p>\n
10. The minimus is the name for your tiny toe or finger.<\/p>\n
11. An agraffe is the name for the wire cage that a champagne bottle uses to keep the cork in place.<\/p>\n
13. Vocables is the term for words like “la la la” and “na na na,” which are used in song lyrics but do not truly mean anything.<\/p>\n
13. An interrobang is a punctuation mark that combines an exclamation point and a question mark (such as this?!).<\/p>\n
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14. The columella nasi is the area between your nostrils.<\/p>\n
15. Armscye refers to the area of a garment’s armhole where the sleeves are sewn.<\/p>\n
16. Dysania is the medical term for the inability to get out of bed in the morning.<\/p>\n
17. Griffonage is the term for illegible handwriting.<\/p>\n
18. Tittle is the term for the dot placed over a “I” or “j”.<\/p>\n
19. Crapulence is the term used to describe the extremely sickening sensation you get after overindulging in food or liquids.<\/p>\n
20. Bannock device is the name of the metallic device used to measure your feet at the shoe store.<\/p>\n
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