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weird body parts.....fundamental information

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There are weird and wonderful parts of the body, just as there are "Weird and Wonderful Words", a delightful little tome by Erin McKean.

In it you will find out what to call the blank space between your eyebrows, the glabella,

or that cute dent ...

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school's out for summer, school's out forever

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I caught this word being used on a TV show the other day, and was proud that I had "learned it all on my own".................

The word autodidact is first recorded in the mid-eighteenth century. It comes from Greek elements meaning, helpfully en...

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wordmeisters----unite!

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fear no washcloth!

Ablutophobia
(noun) [ah-bloo'-tah-FOE-bee-ah]

1. Pathological fear of washing or bathing: "Until Sasha discovered the joys of splashing, she would scream through her nightly bath like a baby with ablutophobia."
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