A Person Who Studies Bugs
What's an ichthyologist?
(Alla Dreyviter/The Washington Post)
Most workers take job titles that make sense even if you don't know exactly what the person does. An electrician keeps the power flowing through your domicile. A bakery helps make birthday parties a success. A painter saves the twenty-four hour period if your little blood brother draws all over the living room walls with a permanent marker.
Simply what about an ichthyologist (ik-thee-AH-lo-gist)? What does that person practice? From the name itself, y'all might imagine that an ichthyologist studies things that are icky. In reality, ichthyology is the scientific study of fish.
Today'south cavalcade contains a list of jobs and hobbies that take odd-sounding names. Some of these words have clues to their meaning, but simply for people who know sometime languages such as Latin and Greek. That's considering modernistic words have "roots" from the past. For instance, the suffix "ologist" refers to someone who studies a field of knowledge. It comes from a Greek word that means to speak.
Because the school year is just getting started, allow's plow the tables on your parents. Instead of reading this article with your mom or dad, quiz them to see how many names they're familiar with. After all, who says kids are the only ones who should be learning stuff?
Entomologist: an adept in the scientific study of insects.
Philatelist: a stamp collector.
Equestrian: a rider or performer on horseback.
Milliner: someone who makes or sells women's hats.
Bibliophile: a book lover and collector.
Hepatologist: a dr. who specializes in liver problems.
Farrier: an skilful in the care of horses' hooves, including shoeing them.
Cooper: a barrelmaker.
Meteorologist: an expert who studies and predicts the weather.
Haberdasher: someone who sells men's clothes.
Confectioner: someone who makes or sells candy and other sweets.
Genealogist: an expert in tracing the ancestors in your family tree (history).
Gaffer: an electrician on a film coiffure who's in accuse of lighting.
Cobbler: a shoe repairman.
Birder: someone who enjoys watching birds in their natural habitats. (A scientist who studies birds is chosen an ornithologist.)
Audiophile: someone who listens to music on loftier-quality audio systems.
Anglophile: Someone who is enchanted with anything related to England.
Cartographer: a mapmaker.
Apothecary: someone who makes or sells medicine (also known as a chemist).
Lexicographer: someone who writes and edits dictionaries.
Vexillologist: someone who studies and collects information about flags.
Cosmetologist: someone who works in a salon to make a person'due south face, pare and hair more beautiful.
Cosmologist: A scientist who studies the universe.
Linguist: an expert in the scientific study of language.
Archivist: someone who maintains and manages archives (documents of historic importance).
Hydrologist: someone who studies the supply, movement and quality of water on Globe and other planets.
Etymologist: someone who studies the origins of words and how their meanings have inverse throughout history.
If a family unit member suggests that you get a gastroenterologist, you might want to think twice before you say yeah. A gastroenterologist is a doctor who specializes in the intestinal tract and all its "disgusting" ailments.
Bennett is a Washington pediatrician. His Spider web site, www.howardjbennett.com, includes past KidsPost articles and other cool stuff.
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