27 Weird But Interesting Facts About Words That You Probably Didn’t Know

Learned this as a child

But since Latin v's are pronounced as w's, you say wideo if you wanted to say it in Latin

Oh geez, might be a bit too much flopping around for me, but interesting fact.

Hell, that's every holiday. You gotta be drunk to host my family get togethers

I have a teacher whose last name is 75% d's

so that's why my teacher will say "alright girls" every time he starts class

That one I knew!

No one’s going to scratch your back if you fling this word at them...

In prison, it can still mean that.

I read that too fast and it registered as Capuchin monkey, which I guess also works. 8F7DB85E-8...0-jpeg.jpg

That's also why the Swiss country code is CH, like on the rear of a car: Confederatio Helvetica, "confederation of the Helvetian tribes".

"To err is human, to moo bovine"

...so, the 90s

Does this come from the French word "baiser" which means "to kiss"? Breads that kiss in the oven... I loaf this romantic idea! ;-)

don Quixote's love, Dulcinea. His horse was Rocinante. Literally "first nag"

It could be easier to just use the definition.

Cool now I know the actual word for throwing out my back

What about "cHARLOTte" then ?

This word is autological.

For anyone wondering why: A cliché muscle has a thick middle part that tapers towards the tendons. Hence, it looks a little like the body of a mouse.

Related in the sense that both refer to doors/gates (ianua in latin) --- janitor= doorkeeper; Ianus= god of beginnings and endings/passages.

We all know a few people like that.

Xenos. Figures prominently in the Odyssey.

I don’t find that at all funny.

Pretty much every example in that Ironic song is Bathos.

Welp, my front facing camera says I have about 5 buccula's :/