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    1 year ago

    I’m too old to know what Phineas and Ferb is, but when I was young I used to love knowing obscure words like:

    • The indent between your upper lip and your nose is called the philtrum (more commonly known now because of piercings

    • The recess on the bottom of a wine bottle is called a punt.

    • The infinity symbol (like a sideways 8) is a lemniscate

    • The cap on the pointy end of an umbrella, or any other tubular thing (including a pencil) is called a ferrule

    • The space between your eyebrows is your glabella

    Etc. Anyway, aglet was one of those. I was always so happy when I had an opportunity to use one (“Oh, man, my aglet broke!”).