The cardboard ring around a coffee cup is called a Zarf
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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m too old to know what Phineas and Ferb is, but when I was young I used to love knowing obscure words like:
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The indent between your upper lip and your nose is called the philtrum (more commonly known now because of piercings
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The recess on the bottom of a wine bottle is called a punt.
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The infinity symbol (like a sideways 8) is a lemniscate
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The cap on the pointy end of an umbrella, or any other tubular thing (including a pencil) is called a ferrule
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The space between your eyebrows is your glabella
Etc. Anyway, aglet was one of those. I was always so happy when I had an opportunity to use one (“Oh, man, my aglet broke!”).
arashikage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
gencha@lemm.ee 1 year ago
These are awesome! Thanks
ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Another fun one: the # symbol is an octothorpe
waz@feddit.uk 1 year ago
But are you old enough to remember Tom Cruise discussing them in the film Cocktail? (in the cinema on the original release‽ )
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, it came out when I was 26, but I don’t think I saw it.
SariEverna@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
And the infinity symbol is likely related to the analemma, the shape the sun traces out over the course of a year.