I
came across a fast read Word Nerd, which features oddities of the
English language. I am sharing 15 that interested me. Perhaps you, too, shall find them worthy of your time:
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A
bibliophile likes the feel, look, and smell of books and to collect or display
them, but a bibliophagist is one who is a voracious reader.
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A
logolept is another term for word nerd.
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Epeolatry
means the worship of words.
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Dreamt
is the only word in English that ends with “mt.”
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96
of the 100 most common English words have Germanic roots, and just those words
make up more than half of all English used today.
·
Queueing
is the only word in English that contains five consecutive vowels.
·
4,000
words are added, on average, to the English language each year. That’s about one every two hours.
·
A
bookery is another name for a library, first seen in writing in 1798.
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A
contronym is a word with contradictory meanings. For example, to bolt something is to secure
it – or to flee from it. Bound means
you’re heading for somewhere or it means restrained from movement.
·
Silent
letters in words, like the k in knee or the second b in bomb, are called
apthongs.
·
To
bowdlerize is to remove sexually offensive words or passages from a book prior
to publication. It is a sanitizing or
censoring of a book.
·
The
first English dictionary was Richard Mulcaster’s Elementarie, a list of 8,000
words published in 1582.
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Dermatoglyphics
is the study of fingerprints and skin patterns.
It is also the joint longest English isogram (a word comprised entirely
of different letters), tying with "uncopyrightable."
·
The
word maverick comes from Sam Maverick, a Texan politician and land baron who
refused to brand his cattle, making such people known as mavericks.
·
Do
you think someone is not as beautiful as she thinks she is? Call her a callomaniac. But if you try to date her with flirtatious
talk that leads to nowhere, that is called sphalblalia.
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