Trivia and Amazing Facts 15-09-08

• The adjective "sesquipedalian" defines itself: it is used to describe the use of very long, or multi-syllabic, words.

• The term "hush money," meaning a bribe to keep someone form revealing scandalous or damaging information, was first used in the early 1700s.

• TIMOTHY GRASS. The perennial European grass timothy, widely grown in the United States for hay, was named after Timothy Hanson, who took the seed from New York to the Carolinas in the 1720s.

• John Alden is noted for the fact that he was a cooper by trade and was asked to join the Mayflower company for the extremely important task of caring for the Pilgrims' beer kegs while on their New World journey.

• The meaning of the Latin term ad hoc is "for this" in the sense of "for this task only."

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