Thursday, September 27, 2012

C is for Carolina Cherry Laurel Tree


  • Creator, Christianity, Church
  • Commander-in-Chief
  • Cardinal
  • C can sound like the letter K, as in cookie, or like the letter s, as in cinnamon.
  • C looks the same whether it is in Capital Case or lower case.
  • The top 10 sources of Vitamin C are:  oranges,  guava, red sweet pepper,  kiwi, green sweet pepper, grapefruit, vegetable juice cocktail, strawberries, brussels sprouts, and cantalope.
  • Three of our United States start with C....California, Colorado, and Connecticut.
  • Finding Middle C on the keyboard is the first step in learning to play the piano.  The exact middle of the key board is not Middle C, but is the space between E and F, above Middle C.
  • Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. spacecraft launch site.
  • C-Span is the acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network created in 1979 as a public service offering coverage of what's going on in the federal government and other public affairs programming.
  • Cancer and Capricorn are two signs of the Zodiac.
  • C - average grade.
  • C's contributions to grammar:  clause, comma, capitalization, conjunction, conjugation
  • C is the third letter of the English alphabet.
  • C-Section
  • In chemistry C is the symbol for the element carbon.
  • C is the Roman numeral for 100.
  • cc - carbon copy and cubic centimeter
  • C battery, a standard size battery.
  • C cell, one of the five basic sizes of flashlight cells.
  • C stands for Copyright.
  • Remember the cat-eye glasses? 
  • Collywobbles, an upset tummy
  • C-fold is a common type of fold for brochures, letters, and other paper products, such as paper hand towels.
  • The Euro mark looks like a capital C with two horizontal crossbars.  
  • C stands for Celsius and Centigrade.  The Celsius measurement for temperature was named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744).  0 was defined as the freezing point of water, and 100 was the boiling point of water according to the Celsius scale.
  • c is the symbol for the speed of light.
  • In cooking, c stands for a cup measurement.
  • Campbell's Cream of Chicken, Cream of Celery, Cream of Cheddar Cheese Soups
  • Chili and crackers
  • Creeping Charlie, chrysanthemum, carnation, columbine, cone flower, calla lily, clematis, crocus,  cactus 
  • The letter C ranks 12th in frequency of use.
  • Calico Cat, chocolate chip, Christopher Columbus, closed captioning, cookies and cream, credit card, cruise control, and cross-country 
  • CU - means 'see you' in text messaging.
  • Remember the Davy Crockett-inspired coonskin caps?
  • Control-C is a common computer command used to copy highlighted text to the clipboard.
  • Cuba is the largest exporter of sugar.
  • China - where paper originated, where 70% of the world's toys are made, and where the wheelbarrow was invented.
  • Crayons got their name from the wife of one of the founders of Crayola.  She combined the words 'craie' (French for chalk) with the first part of the word 'oleaginous' (the oily paraffin wax) to make the word Crayola.
  • The letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spelling of any English number.
  • The Worldwide Web was programmed with Objective C, an object-oriented programming language.
  • The radio station call letter in Canada is C.
  • CoCo Chanel and Chanel No. 5 Perfume
  • Tongue Twister:  All I want is a proper cup of coffee made in a proper copper coffee pot.  You can believe it or not, but I just want a cup of coffee in a proper coffee pot.  Tin coffee pots or iron coffee pots are of no use to me.  If I can't have a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea!