Three of the following are FACTS…one is a FIB (scroll down to find out which one!)
1. The Number One song on the Billboard charts at the end of the last decade was: “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey.
2. Paul McCartney and John Lennon both wrote different songs called “Woman” . . . McCartney’s in 1966 and Lennon’s in 1980. It’s the only time they wrote separate songs with the same title.
3. A word with two opposite meanings is called a oppositonym. Like “dust” . . . which can refer to actual dust, or the act of removing dust.
4. There’s an actual medical condition for when a song gets stuck in your head and just won’t leave. It’s called musical tinnitus.
AND THE FIB IS…(scroll down)
#3!
A word with two opposite meanings is called a contronym. Like “dust” . . . which can refer to actual dust, or the act of removing dust.
SOURCES:
Wikipedia/ Wikipedia / Dictionary.com / Tinnitus /
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