11 Facts About Words that will Blow your Mind 🤯

• A single piece of confetti is called a "confetto."

• "Penguin" means "white head." According to Merriam-Webster, the name of this flightless bird comes from the Welsh words for "head" (pen) and "white" (gwyn).

• Acnestis is the spot between your shoulder blades that you can't reach, yourself, to scratch.

• In his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton invented the word "Pandemonium" as the name of the capital of the underworld.

• The original name for "butterfly" was "flutterby".

• The word “Goodbye” originally comes from an Old English phrase meaning “god be with you”.

• "Helvetica" (the font) is the Latin word for "Swiss". It was designed in Switzerland.

• The word 'atrate' means 'one dressed in black; a mourner'.

• The oldest English word that is still in use is “town”.

• 'Floccinaucinihilipilification' is the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.

• Using long, complicated or formal words in speech or writing in order to impress people, attract attention or sound important is called being 'grandiloquent'.

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