Word of the Day

[julesapple]

Borborygmus.... (pronounced /bɔː.bəˈɹɪɡ.məs/; plural borborygmi)

.....isn't that brilliant?!

It's the official name for tummy rumbles!

[veggiechicken]

Quite onomatopoeic (sp?)!

[Glutton4...]

It's known in the Horsey world!

[julesapple]

Aestival \ES-tuh-vuhl\ , adjective:

Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases

Anyone know what 'summer' means?

[Aberdeenplotter]

yes, it's a quantity of furry stuff on yer napper

[taff]

sum·mer 2 (smr)
n.
1. A heavy horizontal timber that serves as a supporting beam, especially for the floor above.
2. A lintel.
3. A large, heavy stone usually set on the top of a column or pilaster to support an arch or lintel.
[Middle English, beam, pack animal, from Anglo-Norman sumer, from Vulgar Latin *saumrius, from Late Latin sagmrius, pertaining to a packsaddle, packhorse, from sagma, packsaddle; see sumpter.]


see? not what you thought it meant

[Florence Fennel]

In Yorkshire it means "something" - Summer'ts up ere. What is all this waxing lyrical tonight? You had too much of that coffee Jules?

Actually, I've just been corrected, "something" is "sommat" not "summer't" so I'm wrong again.
I want to be a tree.

[Florence Fennel]

Then again, I do sometimes feel I'm the epitomy of Taff's definition of summer, supporting everybody else. All this rain is dampening my mood.

[julesapple]

Summert sounds more Somerset.

So, 'they' lied....it's nothing to do with bright sunshine and temperatures well into double figures? Hmmmm....thought not. Building our hopes up - sick bggers.

[snohare]

Anyone know what 'summer' means?

Yes, it means warmer rain !

"Borborgymi" is the Russian word for the tummy gurgle - didn't know that there was a posh Latinised version of it, but I did know that Russian is supposedly the only language in the world that has a word for tummy gurgles... (you learn these things on the sorts of forums I go on!)
What I wonder is, what is the word for repetitive burping ?

[julesapple]

It's aerophagia. That one I did know, borborygmus I came across by accident.

[Pa Snips]

It's time for a new 'word of the day' and in honour of our fascinating and colourful language I would like to put forward the word...hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian...which appropriately means: pertaining to extremely long words.

[snohare]

So what's the word for "pertaining to extremely short words" ?

[Jeanied]

snappy.......

[Glutton4...]

^^^^ PMSL ^^^^

Nutter!