They might, but dragees come in all kinds of shapes and colours, including what I’d normally call sugared almonds. Argentees may be a word used (by somebody somewhere) to specify particularly the little siver ones.
One that I only learned recently despite a lifetime of using them. Those thingies for linking hole-punched sheets of paper made from a short length of string with little metal or plastic bars on the end are:
Treasury Tags
Maybe everyone but me already knew that.
Is there a name for the little bobbles on a keyboard that mark the home keys? If not can we coin one?
Homing nipples?
Google search on Homing nipples found to be NOT WORK SAFE.
But worth the risk ;).
And the little plastic or metal thing around the hole the shoelace goes through is a grommet.
There are two Mormon “Trivial Pursuit”-type games, intended to help teach the LDS religion. One is called Jots and Tittles for precisely this reason. (The other is “Celestial Pursuit”)
The point of the original quotes, of course, is that not even anything so apparently unimportant as a single stroke (“jot” = the semtic letter “i”, just like Greek “iota”) or a diacritical mark (“tittle”, which makes it appropriate to use fior the dot on the “i” or the “j”) will be changed. (Also makes it appropriate to use as an almost-synonym for “trivia” in nthe game title)
Stop staring at my tittles!
I am SO copying this thread and putting into my Trivia file.
How about names for common things that a persion invested in the field knows easily but your average not-involved person has no clue? For instance:
- the thingys on an electric guitar that translate string vibration into an electronic signal are called pickups. The ones introduced by Gibson in 1957 that are used in a huge percentage of electrics out there are called “Humbucking pickups” becase they, um, “buck the hum” - they’re wired in a way to cancel out the radio frequency hum that plagues many other pickups.
- in books:
- the pieces of paper glued into the hard-cover bindings to help attach the pages to the bindings are called paste-downs
- the blank papers at the front are called ffep’s - front free end papers
- if there is a page in front of the title page that just mentioned the name of the book, it is called either a half-title page or a fly title-page (normally shortened to “the fly title”)
- the back of the title page with all the publishing info is called the Copyright page
- the front of a page is call the Recto; the back of a page is called the Verso
- if there is a few-line blurb on a page in the rear of the book - typically describing the font used or stating the number of copies printed if it was a limited edition is called a Colophon.
All for now!
I didn’t know that, but I also still have no idea what you’re talking about.
The symbol on this common road sign is a chevron.
Treasury Tags
Seems to be a British thing maybe? I’ve never heard of them either.
Here’s some info tho, with pics:
http://www.wordridden.com/journal.php/20050825005227.xml
http://www.mayfairstationers.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=2752
When I was Googling this topic, I came across an entry that said “see: Paperclip”.
Someone should tell the British
You mean there really are “silvered almonds”? I always assumed they were a typo for “slivered almonds.” (You know, the kind they put in the packet with the frozen green beans.)
Also: Is there a name for the eensy tapioca-looking granules used to cover nonpareils?
I don’t know the name of the “ƒ” symbol but it’s used on the Macintosh to mean “folder” — i.e., when you install some new piece of software, let’s say Pixelware® Hoozit™v.2.5, if there’s an actual installer it may create a folder to house the actual application plus all the support files and libraries that let Pixelware Hoozit do its thing, and that folder will be called “Pixelware® Hoozit ƒ”.
The round decorative metal disk where plumbing comes out of the wall is called an escutcheon.
The movable piece of wood for tightening the hair of a violin bow is called the frog.
The common grapefruit spoon is also called a citrucule. Okay, I made that one up.
Treasury tags are normally used when the papers to be bundled together are too thick for a paperclip.
not seen, but heard daily:
borborygmus is the sound caused by the passage of air through the intestines, plural is borborygmi
When you go to a chi-chi coffee shop and are served your soy milk cappuccino with a shot of imported almond syrup in a glass, and that glass has a wire thing around it with a handle so you don’t have to touch the hot glass–well, that wire thing is called a zarf.
The wire cage over the cork on a champagne bottle is an agraffe.
I don’t know whether to pity or admire the person who sees it every day, but the space between the genitals and the butthole is the “perineum.”
Actually, nipple is the plumbing trade term for a little pipe segment which connects two larger pipes or other plumbing components.
Boring, but they’re called Keyboard bumps
They are also nonpareils.