Watchama call it?

• 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.

• The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

• In the early days of film making, people who worked on the sets were called movies. The films were called potion pictures.

• The back of the human hand is the opisthenar.

• Someone who uses as few words as possible when speaking is called pauciloquent.

• The small cup in which an espresso is served is called a demitasse.

• A building in which silence is enforced, like a library or school room, is referred to as a silentium.

• In early France the distance a man could walk while smoking one pipeful of tobacco was called a pipee.

• Compulsive shopping was identified by a German psychiatrist almost a hundred years ago. Clinically it is known as oniomania. Shopaholics are the people who do not suffer from chrematophobia, which is the fear of touching money.

• The device at the intersection of two railroad tracks to permit the wheels and flanges on one track to cross or branch for the other is called a frog.