Season 4 ~ Episode #67 - - - 15 Words For Things You Didn't Know Had Names

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on December 4, 2013 at 11:27am

It's called the FLIPPER! Hellooooo?!?!? <--- the poor man's interrobang

K-ModPermalink Reply by Kevin (UniSeal) on December 4, 2013 at 1:22pm

Well, I call it the "remote", but my family for some season calls it the "clicker".

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on December 4, 2013 at 11:30am

The only one of these I actually knew prior to today's GMM episode was PETRICHOR

Permalink Reply by Madison Jacques(Biacorn OF KOOM) on December 4, 2013 at 11:54am

I don't mean to sound pedantic but I knew lunula, philtrum, tittle, and I knew of mondegreen but I couldn't remember what it was exactly called.

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on December 4, 2013 at 1:16pm

CORRECTION:

I was multitasking while listening to the show, and totally missed TITTLE in the listing - - I also knew that one already as well as it's co-hort the JOT which is the criss-stroke line thru the letters "t" and "f"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jot_and_tittle

"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled" ~ Matthew 5:18

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on December 4, 2013 at 12:18pm

Permalink Reply by William C. Hopkins on December 4, 2013 at 11:45pm

If rhett and link did make that product, i would buy it to make my mythical beastliness smell more awesome then i am right now.

Permalink Reply by Marcus Bean (El Gusano) on December 6, 2013 at 9:21pm

I was thinking more of a "PETRICHOR"

"SMELL LIKE A GOD"

"by Rhett And Link"

K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on December 7, 2013 at 3:45pm

I knew "tittle" and "interrobang" because I'm an editor nerd.

This has nothing to do with unknown vocabulary, but one of my favorite language trivia tidbits is related to the Old English character þ (pronounced "thorn"). When part of a word, it has the same sound as "th." Eventually the shape of the letter evolved/devolved to look a lot like our modern letter "y" -- so when you see places now called "Ye Olde Something or Other," the use of the word "Ye" is actually the Old/Middle English spelling of "The."

Hooray language!

Permalink Reply by Marcus Bean (El Gusano) on December 7, 2013 at 3:53pm

Myþical beasts are always teaching me weird words and characters. þat was þe only reason I knew "interrobang" a MB told me a while before the episode.

Permalink Reply by Lilian Brandon (Tachyonic Raven) on December 9, 2013 at 12:34pm

I knew those two as well!

Also that's a pretty cool trivia tidbit! I'll have to remember that.

Permalink Reply by Lilian Brandon (Tachyonic Raven) on December 9, 2013 at 12:35pm

I only knew "tittle" and "interrobang", though I feel like I'd heard "ferrule" and "mondegreen" before but couldn't remember what they meant.