Post #290,228
8/2/07 11:22:47 PM
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33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names
[link|http://www.wattpad.com/3702|33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names]
I knew items 1 (aglet), 7 (ferrule), 9 (hemidemisemiquaver), 20 (octothorpe) and 31 (tang).
From [link|http://www.ieclectic.com/new337457.html|A whatchamacallit of wordsmithing webgets].
Wade.
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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
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Post #290,229
8/2/07 11:50:01 PM
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A couple need clarification
15 Kick or Punt: the real reason for this indentation is to concentrate sediment into a narrow space around the edge of the bottom of the bottle so it is more caked and less likely to come loose when the wine is poured.
22 Peen: this does not apply to claw hammers. Generally the peen is round for shaping metal (ball peen) but it may be other shapes on specialty hammers.
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Post #290,305
8/5/07 2:09:09 AM
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Well, I assumed it referred to ball-peen hammers.
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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #290,314
8/5/07 10:45:15 AM
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But given the practical knowledge . . .
. . of today's condo dwellers, a great many have never seen or heard of a ball peen hammer.
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Post #290,322
8/5/07 11:40:39 AM
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Hammer? What's a hammer?
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Post #290,326
8/5/07 12:17:01 PM
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Can't touch this!
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Post #290,395
8/6/07 6:10:04 PM
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Sobriquet of particularly noxious HR Pol?
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Post #290,327
8/5/07 12:24:22 PM
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Some have multiple meanings, as well.
There's something called [link|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_peening|shot peen] that is a process in which tiny ball-bearings are applied to metals in a process like sandblasting. It serves to harden surfaces (e.g. in connecting rods of racing engines.) IOW, peen is also a verb.
[link|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrule|Ferrule] is also the name of a tapered ring in a tube fitting used to ensure a leak-tight seal that can be disconnected and reconnected several times. It's also the name for a metal clamping ring around cables, etc., to keep them from fraying and to tie them around bushings, etc.
Another list of obscure words is [link|http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/|Luciferous Logolepsy].
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Scott.
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Post #290,329
8/5/07 12:33:30 PM
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And of course, peen is what you do with . . .
. . a ball peen hammer.
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Post #290,336
8/5/07 1:57:59 PM
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Sometimes in the middle of the night! :)
Alex
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. -- Sophocles (496? - 406 BCE)
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Post #290,355
8/5/07 11:37:16 PM
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Check.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #290,288
8/4/07 12:41:20 PM
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I knew ...
1. AGLET
7. FERRULE
9. HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER
15. KICK or PUNT
20. OCTOTHORPE
23. PHOSPHENES
But of those, the only ones I learned "organically" are phosphenes, because their a symptom of optical migraines, and hemidemi... because of years of drum lassons. The others I picked up from other "odd words" lists.
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Post #290,289
8/4/07 12:50:22 PM
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Thanks! Bookmarked the reference site.
Alex
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Post #290,374
8/6/07 11:31:07 AM
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There is no proper name for the backs of the knees
and what do you call the stuff you floss out from between your teeth
just asking
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Post #290,381
8/6/07 1:45:24 PM
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Kneepit, orts. HTH!
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Post #290,411
8/6/07 9:36:26 PM
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2 of them were familiar
AGLET was mentioned in Pratchett' Maurice and His Educated ROdents, and drageee has the same meaning in Russian (must be a French thing)
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Post #290,419
8/6/07 10:35:11 PM
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Aglets were indeed mentioned in TAMAHER.
It was a crucial turning point for the whole story.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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