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. sequelæ (__________).
[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 sequelæ 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 sequelæ 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 sequelæ which interfere so deeply with human happiness.
1910 Q. Rev. Apr. 429 Ostentation and oppression on the part of the rich with the sequelæ 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. sequelæ (__________).
[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 sequelæ 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 sequelæ 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 sequelæ which interfere so deeply with human happiness.
1910 Q. Rev. Apr. 429 Ostentation and oppression on the part of the rich with the sequelæ 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.......?????