Top 10 Things You Won't Believe Have Names
You spend every day surrounded by oddly specific objects, sensations, habits, and little quirks that seem far too random to deserve official terminology. Then you discover somebody actually bothered to name them, and suddenly the English language feels a lot more obsessive than you gave it credit for.
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Something that resembles a butt - Natiform
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Misheard song lyrics - Mondegreen
Ah yes, James Hetfield ordering food in his own fashion.
Like some lyrics from Lacrymosa (dias alla, Lachrymosa) and another one from Whisper (Servatis a periculum, Servatis a malefico).
The image shows misheard lyrics from Metallica's Fuel.
(Actual lyric: Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire)
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The way it smells outside after rain - Petrichor
I heard this word for the first time thanks to the song "Of Petrichor Weaves Black Noise" by Ne Obliviscaris.
Yup, extreme metal lyrics are educational and poetic.
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?! - Interrobang
I'm very pleased and surprised that I'm using interrobangs so much?!?!?!
There's a combined symbol for the interrobang.
Why can't I stop using interrobangs so much?!?!
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Unreadable handwriting - Griffonage
My dyslexic friend Charles has such complex griffonage that someone joked it looks like Japanese!
I've never heard of this, but I think I suffer greatly from it.
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The pound (#) button on a telephone - Octothorpe
Every time I go onto a user's profile, the URL says "#Username." I hope that's not an instruction.
"To repeat this message, press the octo... octotho... octothorpe key."
Oh, come on, just press the pound key.
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The state of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning - Dysania
Dysania happens to me on school mornings. Luckily, I'm on summer break and will be in 6th grade in August.
Now I know how to make my condition sound more serious.
Who even bothered to name this stuff?
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The "you are here" sign - Ideolocator
Yep. That's true!
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The white, crescent-shaped part of the nail - Lunule
"Luna" plus a diminutive suffix, so it means "little moon." That's so cute!
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The space between your eyebrows - Glabella
I'm familiar with this term. It is used for the part of the exoskeleton between the eyes of trilobites. Now I've learned that it's also used for humans.
I hope that the CIA won't put a red dot on my glabella, which would make them consider me an evil genius.
Rainbow's album Straight Between the Eyes could be renamed Straight into the Glabella.
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The sideways loop on a roller coaster - Corkscrew
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Thing in the middle of a delivery pizza - Pizza Saver
The pizza saver was invented by Carmela Vitale. It is the thing you see in the middle of a pizza. It is meant to prevent the pizza from sticking to the inner top part of the box.
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The act of separating a word into two for effect - Tmesis
That's fan-bloody-tastic!
Inter-friggin'-sting!
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The metal part at the end of a pencil - Ferrule
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A disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to dance - Tarantism
I used to suffer from tarantism but got cured.
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The condition where your second toe is bigger than your big toe - Morton's Toe
My second toe is almost the same size as my big toe, lol.
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The "na na nas" and "la la las" in song lyrics - Vocable
That most meaningful part of the lyrics.
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The day after tomorrow - Overmorrow
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Fear of being watched by a duck - Anatidaephobia
I'm lucky I don't suffer from this, LOL.
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Non-gender-specific term for a niece or nephew - Nibling
Nibbling, yum, yum, yum.
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The plastic coating on a shoelace - Aglet
I thought this would be on the list.
Oh yeah! Like that one Phineas and Ferb episode about aglets, lol!
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The dot on the letters i and j - Tittle
Think I've heard this before.
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The bottom of a wine bottle - Punt
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The act of throwing out a window - Defenestration
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Man-boobs - Gynecomastia
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The cardboard sleeve on a coffee cup - Zarf
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The feeling of romance brought on by the spring weather - Vernalagnia