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At The Book of Everyone, we enjoy finding weird curiosities and facts about the world. Recently, we've been looking for the weirdest words that you probably didn't know existed for our #wordnerd series on Facebook.

Let us know which ones you knew or didn't!

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Audio And Video

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Claire
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Gymnasium

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Doober
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Dutch Feast

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Billy Beecham
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Doryphore

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Girl

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Acnestis

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Cappuccino

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Podunkus
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read that too fast and it registered as Capuchin monkey, which I guess also works. 8F7DB85E-8...0-jpeg.jpg 8F7DB85E-85C4-437B-809C-3E5A91993A5C-5d28b32314a80-jpeg.jpg

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Helvetica

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Marcellus the Third
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Baisure

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Elke Bechtoldt
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Dulciloquent

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Grumble O'Pug
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Floccinaucinihilipilification

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Pandiculation

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Muscle

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Kari Panda
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Janitor

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Marcellus the Third
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Mythomania

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Virgil Blue
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now why did a certain president immediately come to mind I wonder...

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Manu Craciun
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was really looking for this word so i can describe my ex properly 😂😂😂

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Elizabeth Scarborough
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah that's the commonality of most sales people. I should call my team the Mythomaniacs . They'd think it was cool , you know some quip Greek or Latin term, and they'd use it often without so much as looking up the meaning.

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Hellysal
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait... That's a regular word, why would you need to explain it? It's like you'd prepare a definition for "philosophy" - there is one, but it's common knowledge so you probably won't have to explain.

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Host And Guest

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Buccula

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