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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.

Tittle, Lemniscate, and 8 Other Words For Things You Didn't Know Had Names

By Eleanor Barkhorn
Jul 30 2010, 12:45 PM ET Comment

Ever wondered what to call the skin between your eyebrows? Or the dot that goes over a lower-case "i"? Well, you're in luck: Buzzfeed has assembled a list of 10 Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, and it includes glabella—"the smooth prominence of the forehead between the eyebrows"—and tittle—"The dot over i or j." Also included:

lemniscate: The infinity symbol. Example sentence: Not surprisingly, a certain brand of automobile uses a modified lemniscate in its logo.
Read the whole list at Buzzfeed.

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