Word of the day

[Jude]

well someone said something and we all had a laugh.....

So hope you all have a wonderful weekend.... I am resting my back - slightly overdone it today - i need to know a good long word for overdoing things, that is not an oximoronic statement...

Us Jews gotta start cooking for Purim starts on Monday - luckily that isn't so much cooking as starving! Fast of Esther... but the food binge starts on Tu esday hic!!!

[Richard Ruck]

Slightly more scientific today:

anagenesis

• noun [mass noun] Biology - species formation without branching of the evolutionary line of descent.
— derivatives
anagenetic adjective.

— origin late 19th cent.: from ana- and genesis.

[englishangel]

Slightly more scientific today:

anagenesis

• noun [mass noun] Biology - species formation without branching of the evolutionary line of descent.
— derivatives
anagenetic adjective.

— origin late 19th cent.: from ana- and genesis.

Sounds a bit X-men to me.

[Jude]

my word of the day : Peroration

substantive, to close or terminate, finish, terminus,
verb : to end; close, finish, expire, terminate
phrase : "to cut the matter short!
adjective : ending, clsoing etc.
Adverbs : once for all, in the fine, finally

as according to Roget's Thesaurus, cat number 67

[Richard Ruck]

I think most of us will have known this one;

nonet

• noun a group of nine people or things, especially musicians.
• a musical composition for nine voices or instruments.

— origin mid 19th cent.: from Italian nonetto, from nono ‘ninth’, from Latin nonus.

[99yorkpj]

Whammy

'A devastating set-back'

[cj]

Whammy

'A devastating set-back'

Or an afficionado of the 80's popular music combo? Bad boys stick together, never sad boys. Doo doo doo doo doo, a woo woo.

[99yorkpj]

Whammy

'A devastating set-back'

Or an afficionado of the 80's popular music combo? Bad boys stick together, never sad boys. Doo doo doo doo doo, a woo woo.

liking it..!

[cj]

Whammy

'A devastating set-back'

Or an afficionado of the 80's popular music combo? Bad boys stick together, never sad boys. Doo doo doo doo doo, a woo woo.

liking it..!

I was a Durannie, though ...

[Richard Ruck]

'Cottager' - a follower of George Michael's post-Wham solo career....

[Hendrik]

What's white, sticky and runs down toilet walls?
George Michaels latest release.

Emma told me that one on my third form (98) when it was more relevant.

Along with:
There was a young man from Dundee,
Who went to the cliff for a pee.
But as soon as he started,
the silly ars* farted,
and blew himself into the sea.

[99yorkpj]

What's white, sticky and runs down toilet walls?
George Michaels latest release.

Emma told me that one on my third form (98) when it was more relevant.

Along with:
There was a young man from Dundee,
Who went to the cliff for a pee.
But as soon as he started,
the silly ars* farted,
and blew himself into the sea.

Lovely. Just when was it you left 3rd form??!

[Richard Ruck]

Right, back to the words:

benedicite

• noun a blessing, especially a grace said at table in religious communities.
• (the Benedicite) the canticle used in the Anglican service of matins beginning ‘O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord’, the text being taken from the Apocrypha.

— origin Latin, ‘bless ye!’, plural imperative from benedicere ‘wish well’; the first word of the canticle in Latin.

[cj]

Matins is lovely as a sung service (on a par with sung evensong? There's a debate!) with some gorgeous settings of the canticles, the Benedicite and Jubilate.

[midget]

Matins is lovely as a sung service (on a par with sung evensong? There's a debate!) with some gorgeous settings of the canticles, the Benedicite and Jubilate.

Loved the smiley! It reminded me of our first French teacher- a lot of people joined in LIV,so missed out on a year's worth and had to do 2 years in 1. We were taught by someone whose name I forget (she usually taught German) and made us practise vowel sounds using exaggerated mouth movements-we must have looked just like your lovely smileys