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The Dot on an i Is Called a Tittle
The dot over a lowercase i or j has its own name, it began as a handwriting helper in medieval manuscripts, and it may be hiding inside the phrase to a T.
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Pressumption
(n.) The firm private belief that pressing the lift button a second time makes the lift arrive sooner.
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Aislefret
(n.) The anxiety of choosing a supermarket queue, immediately followed by the certainty that you have chosen wrong.
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Crumbdiplomacy
(n.) The long, wordless negotiation conducted over the last biscuit on the plate, in which everybody's goal is to eat it while appearing not to want it.
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Lidfaith
(n.) The serene confidence with which you carry a full takeaway cup whose lid you have not actually checked.
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A Jiffy Is a Real Unit of Time
The word you use for hurry up is also a genuine technical term, and depending on who is using it, a jiffy lasts anything from a fiftieth of a second to a few trillionths of one.
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Portelude
(n.) The blank half-second at a door you have used a thousand times, in which you have no idea whether it pushes or pulls.
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Bramblewait
(n.) The pause with your hand already in the hedge, spent deciding that the blackberry you can reach is not the one you deserve.
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Tepidence
(n.) The third reheating of a drink you have no real intention of finishing.
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Quillemency
(n.) The small mercy by which a pen you have just proven to be dead is returned to the pot rather than the bin.