Fang
Fang - F A N G - the elongated teeth of the classic Hammer Horror and Universal Studios film character. It may come from the Old English and the Old Norse - a grasping or capture, the act of seizing. It has been stated, after a study of 10,000 words in 1975, that words from Old Norse make up about 5% of those 10,000 words. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that there are 170,000 words in current use with 47,000 words no longer in use. I think it has already been mentioned that the name of a Starbuckian coffee shop has come from a Scandinavian country. ( Fang) Back to fang, the word, can be used to describe the large sharp tooth of an animal. The canine teeth of a dog or canine. Hence, I guess, the name of that tooth but it is also the tooth of a venomous animal, poison is injected by the snake as it buries its fangs in the flesh of the victim. Also, the spider has fangs too in which it kills its prey with venom coming from the fangs. Was it Ricky Gervais who talked about...