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At The Book of Everyone, we enjoy finding weird curiosities and facts about the world. Recently, we've been looking for the weirdest words that you probably didn't know existed for our #wordnerd series on Facebook.

Let us know which ones you knew or didn't!

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Audio And Video

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Claire
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But since Latin v's are pronounced as w's, you say wideo if you wanted to say it in Latin

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Gymnasium

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Doober
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh geez, might be a bit too much flopping around for me, but interesting fact.

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Dutch Feast

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Billy Beecham
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hell, that's every holiday. You gotta be drunk to host my family get togethers

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Girl

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Acnestis

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Bully

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Tom Grosman
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an adjective it means terrific or excellent, like “bully pulpit” or “bully for you”

Lois Crowe
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It also used to mean mate or friend. If you listen to some of the old sea shanties, 'bullies' refers to the singer's shipmates.

Paul Dixon
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was a positive word that was also used in admiration and amongst friends. But just with words such as "wicked" the meaning can be flipped. The current meaning dates from the 17th century.

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Cappuccino

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Podunkus
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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read that too fast and it registered as Capuchin monkey, which I guess also works. 8F7DB85E-8...0-jpeg.jpg 8F7DB85E-85C4-437B-809C-3E5A91993A5C-5d28b32314a80-jpeg.jpg

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Helvetica

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Marcellus the Third
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's also why the Swiss country code is CH, like on the rear of a car: Confederatio Helvetica, "confederation of the Helvetian tribes".

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Baisure

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Elke Bechtoldt
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does this come from the French word "baiser" which means "to kiss"? Breads that kiss in the oven... I loaf this romantic idea! ;-)

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#16

Dulciloquent

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#17

Floccinaucinihilipilification

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Pandiculation

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#21

Muscle

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Kari Panda
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For anyone wondering why: A cliché muscle has a thick middle part that tapers towards the tendons. Hence, it looks a little like the body of a mouse.

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Janitor

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Marcellus the Third
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Related in the sense that both refer to doors/gates (ianua in latin) --- janitor= doorkeeper; Ianus= god of beginnings and endings/passages.

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Host And Guest

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Buccula

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