My word for today

[piskieinboots]

sequelae ..... yer I know I have work to do and a toffee apple bread and butter pudding (with Calvados cream no less) to make and a house to clean up cos as it is half-term from College some study pals are coming here to keep up the good work ...

[di]

What a "jolly" word!!!??

[Flummery]

? the pathological condition - or the resulting consequence? As in sequel.

WHY is it your word for today?

Was your word for yesterday DENTIST?

[piskieinboots]

I guess it's my word today because I was doing proof-reading for a client and couldn't get passed the word ....I have too much latin crashing around me lil bonce

[Nicos]

I can just imagine a gorgeous Italian guy saying that as part of a chat up line...pity it's not sexy!!!!

[Comfreyfan]

Never mind sequelae. . . please can I have the recipe for that toffee apple bread and butter pudding!!

[piskieinboots]

oh yes, I'll deal with that ...so funny cos the Calvados cream you serve with it said 'add 4 teaspoons of calvados'....Snowdrop read it as 4 tablespoons... honest and he wondered why he couldn't beat it stiff
*fans mouth

[smallblueplanet]

According to the OED:

_ sequela (_________). Pl. sequel� (__________).
[L. sequela: see sequel n.]
1. Path. A morbid affection occurring as the result of a previous disease. Chiefly pl.
c1793 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XI. 299/2 But..these sequel� of this disease are perhaps more readily overcome by country air.
1816 A. C. Hutchison Pract. Obs. Surg. (1826) 115, I had, recently, a case of the sequel� of this malady.
1876 J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 529 The change..is sometimes a sequela of myocarditis.
b. transf. A consequence.
1883 Spectator 28 Apr. (Stanf.), Those terrible sequel� which interfere so deeply with human happiness.
1910 Q. Rev. Apr. 429 Ostentation and oppression on the part of the rich with the sequel� of vice, crime and demoralisation.
2. A person’s followers (cf. sequel n. 1). rare.
1858*9 Marsh Eng. Lang. xxx. (1860) 673 The long e in there, which Walker and his sequela make identical with a in fate.

[HeyWayne]

I guess it's my word today because I was doing proof-reading for a client and couldn't get passed the word ....I have too much latin crashing around me lil bonce

I've just read a whole chapter of lorum ipsum...

[piskieinboots]

.....and at what point did you realise or had you signed it off for print

[HeyWayne]

.....and at what point did you realise or had you signed it off for print

Actually, the second chapter gets quite gripping...

[Nicos]

Actually, the second chapter gets quite gripping...

What ya like Wayne??????

[piskieinboots]

I strongly suspect that the colour of the sky in Wayne's world is exactly the same as mine - should we start a self-help group?

[Flummery]

According to the OED:

_ sequela (_________). Pl. sequel� (__________).
[L. sequela: see sequel n.]
1. Path. A morbid affection occurring as the result of a previous disease. Chiefly pl.
c1793 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XI. 299/2 But..these sequel� of this disease are perhaps more readily overcome by country air.
1816 A. C. Hutchison Pract. Obs. Surg. (1826) 115, I had, recently, a case of the sequel� of this malady.
1876 J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 529 The change..is sometimes a sequela of myocarditis.
b. transf. A consequence.
1883 Spectator 28 Apr. (Stanf.), Those terrible sequel� which interfere so deeply with human happiness.
1910 Q. Rev. Apr. 429 Ostentation and oppression on the part of the rich with the sequel� of vice, crime and demoralisation.
2. A person�s followers (cf. sequel n. 1). rare.
1858*9 Marsh Eng. Lang. xxx. (1860) 673 The long e in there, which Walker and his sequela make identical with a in fate.

'Swot I said, din't I? Only I made it more concise!

[Nicos]

.....and today's word is.......?????