Facts in "Words" Category
#3307 - Words Fact     2  When a film is in production, the last shot of the day is the "martini shot," the next to last one is the "Abby Singer". |
| #3308 - Words Fact -2 "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting." |
| #3309 - Words Fact 1 A bird watching term: peebeegeebee = a pied-billed grebe. |
| #3310 - Words Fact 2 "Big cheese" and "big wheel" are Medieval terms of envious respect for those who could afford to buy whole wheels of cheese at a time, an expense few could enjoy. Both these terms are often used sarcastically today. |
| #3311 - Words Fact -2 When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau." |
| #3312 - Words Fact 1 The slash character is called a virgule, or solidus. A URL uses slash characters, not back slash characters. |
| #3313 - Words Fact 4 "Corduroy" comes from the French, "cord du roi" or "cloth of the king." |
| #3314 - Words Fact -3 If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian. |
| #3315 - Words Fact 5 There are six words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate, duumvir and residuum. |
| #3316 - Words Fact 3 Telephone is derived from two Greek words, tele + phone, meaning far off voice or sound.(Tele, far off + phone, voice or sound). |
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