It’s time for another quiz concerning language. I’ve discovered over the years that my knowledge of the uses of language has slowly improved but it needs to get even better. Todays quiz contains ten questions related to language and it will make you rethink how much you really know. As always the answers will be listed below. Good luck . . .

• What are zoonoses?

• What part of an airplane is the empennage?

• What is the most common name we use for the physical affliction known as furfur?

• What do the letters in the computer-world acronym BASIC represent?

• What are you afraid of if you have pogonophobia?

• In computerize what’s the difference between a bit and a byte?

• What is the meaning of the Japanese word “judo”?

• What is the unfriendly meaning of the acronym NIMBY?

• What is “wagger pagger bagger” slang for in England?

• What was the original meaning of “ezel”, the name 17th century Dutch artists gave to the three-legged stand we know today as an easel?

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Answers

Animal diseases communicable to man, The complete tail assembly, Dandruff, Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, Beards, A bit is a single basic unit of info and a byte is generally 8 bits, The Gentle Way, Not In My Back Yard, A wastepaper basket, Ezel is Dutch for “donkey”.