What Did You Say?

What that's thing called? Ya know ... that thing ... the thingie ... the whatchamacallit ... the hard thing ... the plastic tube at the end of your shoelace?

Yep, it has a name.

Everything's got a name.

It's called an aglet.

I don't know if you knew that or if you even care but I came across this tidbit in my new "O" magazine. If you want to impress others with your expansive vocabulary you can check out a new book called "The Whatchamacallit: Those Everyday Objects You Just Can't Name (and Things You Think You Know About, but Don't)", by Danny Danziger and Mark McCrum (Hyperion)

It's filled with all kinds of words that you may not have known existed: words like muselet or borborygmus (I found this one amusing).

Now you're asking yourself, "Why would I use those words in a sentence, anyway?" Well check out their definitions. Who knows .. maybe you can impress your friends, significant other, or ....

Okay, you're probably not going to impress anyone .. maybe you'll just find them amusing like I did. Enjoy!

Here's the short list I found in "O" magazine:

aglet : the plastic tube at the end of your shoelace.

borboygmus: (pronounced bor-buh-RIG-mus): the rumbling sounds your stomach makes.

interrobang: the punctuation mark rendered as "?!"

muselet : (pronounced mew-zeh-LAY) : the four legged wire cage on a Champagne bottle

tmesis (pronounced tuh-MEE-sis) : the division of a word by the insertion of another word; e.g., abso-bloody-lutely or un-freaking-believable.