Trivia about the English language and word origins

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A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).

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A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.

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A ghost writer pens an anonymous book.

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A magic potion or charm thought to arouse sexual love, especially toward a specific person, is known as a "philter."

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A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.

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A speleologist studies caves.

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Anagrams amused the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, and were popular during the Middle Ages.

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"Aromatherapy" is a term coined by French chemist René Maurice Gattefossé in the 1920's to describe the practice of using essential oils taken from plants, flowers, roots, seeds, etc., in healing.

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Ballistics is the science that deals with the motion of projectiles.

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Cannibalism, eating human flesh, is also called anthropophagy.