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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Dutch Feast
Hell, that's every holiday. You gotta be drunk to host my family get togethers
Girl
so that's why my teacher will say "alright girls" every time he starts class
Bluetooth
Me too! I loved stories about vikings and pirates when I was a child so when I heard about Bluetooth devices I was sure that it was probably a viking reference. Also the symbol used for Bluetooth is a viking rune. :) https://fabrikbrands.com/bluetooth-history-and-the-bluetooth-logo/
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Many words actually comes from Danish (or old norse) for example arm bread birth bull calf cow crawl die drag egg farewell harbour hit horse (specificly the Jutland peninsula) husband knife knot land law leg loan loft low man ride root ship sister skill skin skirt sky starboard time weak white window wise And wrong
Did he refuse to speak to anyone new, if he wasn't officially disconnected from the previous guy?
"can't talk right now, I am connected to the Swedish ambassador", 'but he left two weeks ago?' , "maybe he's coming back..."
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The symbol is also the combination of H and B in the style of Viking ruins.
Harald Blåtand; rules c. 958 - c. 986 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth
And when you combine the runes that make the words blue tooth they look like the bluetooth symbol
The NICKname of the Danish King Harald Gormsson was "Bluetooth".
Learned that on PBS . Or History channel. One of those. Maybe it was Travel Channel.
Nope, but he was the son of Gorm Den Gamle (=the old)
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The logo is actually a Viking rune, inspired by the real Bluetooth.
Load More Replies... That is correct. And that's where we get the term Bluetooth for our devices today, too.
Acnestis
No one’s going to scratch your back if you fling this word at them...
Cappuccino
I read that too fast and it registered as Capuchin monkey, which I guess also works. 8F7DB85E-8...0-jpeg.jpg 
Helvetica
That's also why the Swiss country code is CH, like on the rear of a car: Confederatio Helvetica, "confederation of the Helvetian tribes".
Atrate
Baisure
Does this come from the French word "baiser" which means "to kiss"? Breads that kiss in the oven... I loaf this romantic idea! ;-)
Dulciloquent
don Quixote's love, Dulcinea. His horse was Rocinante. Literally "first nag"
Muscle
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.
Janitor
Related in the sense that both refer to doors/gates (ianua in latin) --- janitor= doorkeeper; Ianus= god of beginnings and endings/passages.
This article needs a lot of work and some more explanation for many of them.
Love this sort of stuff. Much better than yet more cute cats or social media arguments.
I'd certainly welcome more word articles, but cute cats have their place, too.
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I wonder why some words change meaning over time. Hiw does a word go from meaning "bundle of sticks" to evenutally being derogatory ? (English F word) or from meaning happy to meaning turned on? Norwegian K word)
Most of these need more explanation or context. They seem to be edited down for the "surprise" factor . A lot of them are quite a stretch.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. All of these are part of a collection we have posted on our Facebook page over the last 2 years. Unfortunately, because it spans such a long time, it's difficult to go back to each one and find the explanation that we wrote up for each one - we'll definitely try to include more explanation in the next one, though!
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Helvètes is a french word that means : The Helvetii (Helvetii) are a group of Celtic peoples from the eastern end of Gaul established on the Swiss plateau (with Aventicum as its capital) when the Suevi were set in motion towards southwestern Germany at the beginning of the 1st century. century BC J.-C.
Good concept, needs more research and explanations. Being fluent in Greek, most of these were, well, words of my first language, and not very obscure at that.
#23 not to be confused with nihilartikels, which I just realized I did in my comment for law review on the demise of the "sweat of the brow test" and which may be one of the reasons my article was not selected for publication. Oops.
#19 is pejorative and bigoted, FYI. https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/2613/6700/9122/DISSING_THE_DUTCH.pdf
Oh dear, then you had better NEVER watch the third Austin Powers movie “Goldmember.” https://youtu.be/zcUs5X9glCc
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This article needs a lot of work and some more explanation for many of them.
Love this sort of stuff. Much better than yet more cute cats or social media arguments.
I'd certainly welcome more word articles, but cute cats have their place, too.
Load More Replies... I wonder why some words change meaning over time. Hiw does a word go from meaning "bundle of sticks" to evenutally being derogatory ? (English F word) or from meaning happy to meaning turned on? Norwegian K word)
Most of these need more explanation or context. They seem to be edited down for the "surprise" factor . A lot of them are quite a stretch.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. All of these are part of a collection we have posted on our Facebook page over the last 2 years. Unfortunately, because it spans such a long time, it's difficult to go back to each one and find the explanation that we wrote up for each one - we'll definitely try to include more explanation in the next one, though!
Load More Replies... Helvètes is a french word that means : The Helvetii (Helvetii) are a group of Celtic peoples from the eastern end of Gaul established on the Swiss plateau (with Aventicum as its capital) when the Suevi were set in motion towards southwestern Germany at the beginning of the 1st century. century BC J.-C.
Good concept, needs more research and explanations. Being fluent in Greek, most of these were, well, words of my first language, and not very obscure at that.
#23 not to be confused with nihilartikels, which I just realized I did in my comment for law review on the demise of the "sweat of the brow test" and which may be one of the reasons my article was not selected for publication. Oops.
#19 is pejorative and bigoted, FYI. https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/2613/6700/9122/DISSING_THE_DUTCH.pdf
Oh dear, then you had better NEVER watch the third Austin Powers movie “Goldmember.” https://youtu.be/zcUs5X9glCc
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