Facts in "Words" Category
#3287 - Words Fact     8  A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up. |
| #3288 - Words Fact 1 The most common letters in the English language are R S T L N E. Sound familiar? Watch an episode of "Wheel of Fortune"... |
| #3289 - Words Fact 2 A "necropsy" is an autopsy on animals. |
| #3290 - Words Fact -6 EEG stands for Electroencephalogram. |
| #3291 - Words Fact 2 The ZIP in zip code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan." |
| #3292 - Words Fact 1 Yucatan, as in the peninsula, is from Maya "u" + "u" + "uthaan" meaning "listen how they speak," and is what the Maya said when they first heard the Spaniards. |
| #3293 - Words Fact 5 The custom of saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes was first used by ancients when they believed that breath was the essence of life, and when you sneeze a part of you life is escaping. Evil spirits rush into your body and occupy the empty space. By saying "God bless you" the speaker is protecting the sneezer from that spirits. |
| #3294 - Words Fact -2 "Evian" spelled backwards is naive. |
| #3295 - Words Fact -2 Author Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, who sometimes wrote under the name "The Duchess," observed in her novel "Molly Bawn" that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." The phrase has passed into the English language. |
| #3296 - Words Fact -1 The "glair" is the white or clear part of an egg. The word glair comes from the Latin clarus, meaning "clear." |
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