Names for common things we see every day that people may not know the name to.

[njtt]

@RivkahChaya

It’s unusual to hear the word “yarmulke” anymore.

Maybe Jews don’t call it a “yarmulke” any more, but I think the rest of us still do. It is news to me that a Jew wears a kippah on his head.

[RivkahChaya]

@njtt

It is news to me that a Jew wears a kippah on his head.

That was my point in posting it.

And it’s pronounced “kee-pah.”

[Napkin_Sandwich]

In my part of the world the little silver balls used to decorate cakes etc are called cachous.

[Dereknocue67]

On eyeglasses, the piece running from the lens to your ear is called the temple.

[kaylasdad99]

@RivkahChaya

Actually, that was a joke. A woman in the 15th century, Juliana Berners, Prioress of Sopewell, wrote a book on hunting, and it was basically serious, but she slipped in some jokes. There was a chapter of collective nouns for animals that were hunted, like a herd of deer, which were things hunters might want to know, but after the serious animals on the list, she included a clowder (clutter) of cats, a shrewdness of apes, a baren [sic] of mules, a murder of crows, and then she went on to groups of people: a superfluity of nuns, a fighting of beggars, a lying of pardoners, an incredibility of cuckolds, among many others. It’s very funny.

A lot of people didn’t get that it was a joke, though, and some of the terms actually entered the language.

And a trio of London streetwalkers could be variously:

A trey of tarts,

A fanfare of strumpets, or

An anthology of English pros.

[Bad_News_Baboon]

@guizot

When two separate windows in a wall are really close together, so they look almost like one big window with a thin vertical support in the middle–that support is a mullion.

And muntins are the pieces that separate the panes of glass in a window unit. A lot of people call them mullions, but it’s not technically correct.

An astragel is like a mullion, but between doors. It is that “post” some double doors have.

A double dot is not always an umlaut. When placed over a second vowel, it is used to tell the reader both vowels are pronounced individually. Zoe should be pronounced like Zoh. Zoë, however, is zoh-ee. It’s called diaeresis.

[gallows_fodder]

The gesture you make when you flick something by bringing the fingernail side of your finger against the pad of your thumb and flicking out forcefully is called a filip.

[RivkahChaya]

@kaylasdad99

And a trio of London streetwalkers could be variously:

A trey of tarts,

A fanfare of strumpets, or

An anthology of English pros.

We should start another thread…

[Bam_Boo_Gut]

That piece of folded paper you’ve shoved under the table leg to stop it wobbling - it’s a shim! A shim is a wedgey thing you shove in to make something fit.

[Bozuit]

@TheSeaOtter

Other things (besides animals) also called a frog: …

The indentation in a brick is called a frog.

@njtt

bort

Are you talking to me?

[Kamino_Neko]

@phouka

The tiny piece of paper punches out by a hole puncher is called a chad.

And the two-pronged metal pin you might insert through the hole where the chad used to be to hold your papers together is called a brad.

[Enright3]

@guizot

When two separate windows in a wall are really close together, so they look almost like one big window with a thin vertical support in the middle–that support is a mullion.

And when you have double doors and there is a piece of molding to seal between the pair of doors, that molding is called an astragal. The astragal closes the clearance gap. The vertical member (molding) attaches to a stile on one of a pair of doors against which the other door closes.

[Isilder]

If you pause to consider your navel then you are engaging in Omphaloskepsis …

Actually there is the connotation that you are meditating … on purpose ?
or engaging in internal dialog.

Children do it during “eidetic play”, where they are so lost in their own game its like its their reality… as if its what they “see”.

[LH75]

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance