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Words and names
4 questions tagged Words and names — spanning every one of the seven Ws.
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What is the plastic tip on a shoelace called?
It is called an aglet. It stops the lace from fraying and makes it easy to thread through the eyelets of a shoe.
Everyday lifeWords and names
which
Which came first: the colour orange or the fruit?
The fruit. In English, 'orange' named the fruit from about the 13th century, and the first recorded use of 'orange' as a colour is from 1502. Before that, people said things like 'yellow-red' or 'saffron'.
Everyday lifeWords and names
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Where does the word OK come from?
It began as a joke in a Boston newspaper in 1839, short for 'oll korrect', a deliberate misspelling of 'all correct'. A year later Martin Van Buren's nickname, Old Kinderhook, made it famous.
Words and namesHistory
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What is the groove between your nose and top lip called?
It is called the philtrum. It forms before birth, when the separate plates of the face grow together and fuse, and in humans it has no important job today.
Human bodyWords and names