What is it called?
” It’s not always easy to remember those out-of-the-ordinary things but to refresh your memory, here’s what it is called. Mid-men, the male versions of mid-wives, are called accouchers. The working section of a piano is called the action. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. The distance that a place holder falls from a glass when it is lifted (you know, place holders sometimes get stuck to the bottom of a cold glass when you lift the glass) is called a bevemeter. The study of creatures such as Bigfoot, the chupacabra, and the Loch Ness monster is called cryptozoology. Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans coined the term to describe his investigations of animals unknown to science. The apparatus used in alcohol distilleries for freeing the spirit from water is called the dephlegmator. One that speaks two languages – is bilingual – can be said to be diglot. Ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes. Shoemakers are commonly called cobblers but corr
