I Learned a New Word This Week
By Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15962)
United States
September 12, 2016 1:44pm CST
My great grandson asked me if I knew what a “wobbegong” was. I really had no idea. Have you ever heard that word before? Do you know what it is?
My great grandson is fascinated with SHARKS and he reads about them any chance he gets. Since he is home schooled, he is encouraged to read about things that interest him for at least an hour every day, instead of playing games on his tablet, in his free time.
He gets books from the library once a week. So, when he stayed with me all day recently, he brought this book about sharks. “Outside and Inside Sharks” by Sandra Markle. He showed me a picture of a “wobbegong.”
It’s a bottom dweller shark that waits “to grab any animal that comes close,” the book said. So we looked it up on the internet.
The one thing I noticed in what we read is that "wobbegong" is probably an aboriginal word, so those in Australia might have heard of it before.
Here’s the link:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the fictional place, see Lake Wobegon. Wobbegongs Temporal range: Upper Jurassic–Recent Pre? ? O S D C P T J K Pg N Spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus, showing the camouflage patte
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
12 Sep 16
I enjoy learning new things and since I help my great grandson from time to time with his school work, I never know what he might come up with.
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@Happy2BeMe (99386)
• Canada
12 Sep 16
Well I guess I learned a new word today too. I have never heard of Wobbegong before now. Thanks to your grandson we are all learning today.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
12 Sep 16
It was a totally new word for me, too.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
12 Sep 16
I enjoyed reading about this shark. It was certainly interesting.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
12 Sep 16
Yes, I noticed that it was also called a carpet shark. I guess, because it lays like a rug on the bottom of the ocean and waits.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
12 Sep 16
Fascinating name for a Shark! Glad both of you learned something new 
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
12 Sep 16
It's always FUN to learn something new, don't you think?
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@missjessicadawn (3286)
• United States
12 Sep 16
Looks like I learned a new word, too! lol
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
12 Sep 16
It's always fun to add a new word to our vocabulary!
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
12 Sep 16
@jstory07 I'm a Trivia Nut so I love learning new things.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
12 Sep 16
I home schooled my youngest son and he has a fantastic vocabulary, mostly because of my encouraging him to read and because we always looked up new words as we did his lessons.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
13 Sep 16
At first, I thought it was wobblegong, but there is no "l" in it. I double checked.
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@JudyEv (326598)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Sep 16
@IreneVincent There is certainly no 'l' so I don't know what I was thinking about.
@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
13 Sep 16
It was certainly a new word for me and I had no idea that it was a species of shark.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
13 Sep 16
@RubyHawk I looked for the word in my dictionary that I keep by my computer, but it was not in that dictionary. I did find it online however.
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@RubyHawk (99421)
• Atlanta, Georgia
13 Sep 16
@IreneVincent A good reason to have a dictionary handy.
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