The creature named for Johnny Cash is a new species of tarantula.- An excessive, uncontrollable urge to buy things is ‘onionmania’.
- Eye dialect is non-standard spelling used to convey uneducated or colloquial speech, such as ‘wuz’ for ‘was’, or ‘peepul’ for ‘people’.
- Greenmail is when a large quantity of a company’s stock is bought as a hostile takeover measure, then sold back to the company at a higher price.
- The Labrador Current flows past Labrador from the Arctic and around Newfoundland to join the Gulf Stream.
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