1/11/21

quire is 24 pieces of paper. 

jackson pollack's wife was also a painter.

from 1/6/21, 1/7/21 and 1/8/21

"paradise" is from persian meaning enclosed park.

terpsichorean means related to dance.

from 1/5/21

yesterday is an adverb.

carolina is charles.

from 1/4/21

budgie is a kind of bird.

yosemite means "they are killers."

dysphemism is the opposite of a euphemism. examples of dysphemism are snail mail for postal mail or killer whale for orca.

ananym is a word written backwards.

alexander graham bell taught instructors of the deaf. his mother and wife were both deaf.

the word malapropism comes from a character in a play.

there's a famous headless statue of a winged woman (nike) called winged victory of samothrace

demonym is a word for a person from a particular place. an example is "german" for a person from germany.

hallmark

hallmark invented modern day gift wrapping.

tsd

temperature can affect whether a turtle is born male or female. 

rbg

rbg's collars had meanings!

b&o railroad

it stands for baltimore and ohio.

george

the expression "by george" actually means "by God."

gingerbread spices

gingerbread has cloves, nutmeg and ginger. nuremberg got these spices to make gingerbread from the silk road.

vigdis

iceland had a female president for 16 years in the 80's-90's.

gingerbread

gingerbread houses became popular in germany due to hansel and gretel.

orient

you can use orient OR orientate.

nobel prize

the first nobel prize in physics was for discovering xrays.

oxbridge

oxford+cambridge=oxbridge

they're the two oldest schools in the UK.

barefoot

marathoner from ethiopia ran in the olympics while barefoot!

barbie

there are barbie versions of rosa parks, sally ride, billy jean king and ella fitzgerald.

vulcan

vulcan is the roman god of the forge.

hydrangeas

the acidity in soil can change a hydrangea's color.

joe gibbs

joe gibbs is in both the pro football hall of fame as well as the NASCAR hall of fame.

tamandua

 a tamandua is an anteater.

d for debt

remember scarlet letter? well it wasn't just A for adultery. there was also D for debt.

pith hat

 the safari hat is called a pith hat.

pakistan

 china is connected to pakistan geographically.

abyss

 when you look into the abyss, abyss looks into you.

fanta

strawberry fanta is a popular shrine offering in thailand. 

saran wrap

 dow chemicals makes saran wrap.

navel oranges

 navel oranges are seedless.

phloem

 phloem is the living tissue in vascular plants that transports compounds made during photosynthesis (particularly sucrose) to parts of the plant where needed.

raglan

this kind of sleeve is called a raglan sleeve.

chaperon

 there's a floppy hat that was worn in the middle ages called a chaperon.