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Friday, July 01, 2005

Trivial Stuff

Trivia about the English language and word origins
  • A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
  • A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
  • A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
  • A speleologist studies caves.
  • Cannibalism, eating human flesh, is also called anthropophagy.
  • "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
  • No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
  • The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
    • || JM, 12:36 AM

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