A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called a "epithalamium."
A poet writes poems; the writer of inferior poems is a "poetaster."
In heraldry, a two-legged dragon with wings and a barbed tail is a "wyvern."
In hospital slang, a GOMER is a patient seeking emergency treatment for a minor complaint. The term is an acronym for "Get Out of My Emergency Room."
In logging slang, a messy pile of logs is called a "jackpot."
In mining, a passage wide enough for only one person is called a "manway."
In printer’s jargon, a “bang” is an exclamation mark.
In silent Aboriginal hunting language, a closed hand slowly opening is meant to show that a kangaroo is near.
In the Middle English, the word "minister" meant "lowly person." It was originally adopted as a term of humility for men of the church.
In the Netherlands, a support group for people with autism has coined a new term for those who are not autistic – "neurologically typical."
In the old school primer "Now We Read," the name of the cat featured with Dick, Jane, Sally, and their dog Spot, was Puff.
In the U.S. and France, a septillion is represented by the number 1 followed by 24 zeroes; in Great Britain and Germany, it is the number 1 followed by 42 zeroes.
A Scottish term for someone who is sullen or bad-tempered is “dorty.”
A short period of time used to be referred to as a "whipstitch."
A three-letter, one-syllable word that becomes a three-syllable word by adding one letter to the end of it: The word "are" has three letters and one syllable – "area" has three syllables.
A tip or gratuity given by a gambler to a dealer or other employee at a casino is called a “toke.”
According to the Gregorian calendar, which is the civil calendar in use today, years evenly divisible by 4 are leap years, with the exception of centurial years that are not evenly divisible by 400. Therefore, the years 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 are not leap years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are leap years.
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Excluding the joker, if you add up the letters in all the names of the cards in the deck (Ace, two, three, four,...,king), the total number of letters is 52, the same as the number of cards in the deck.
All the world's main alphabets have developed from an alphabet invented 3,600 years ago in the Middle East and known as the North Semitic Alphabet.
Although many food writers have translated the Italian "antipasto" as "before the pasta," its literal meaning is "before the meal."
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