Word of the day

[cj]

So a tass of whisky on Burn's Night to toast the great chieftain o' the puddin-race. And then a few more tasses afterwards to wash down the revolting taste.

[Richard Ruck]

Nothing wrong with haggis! (A well-made one, anyway......).

Not entirely unrelated:

aliment

• noun [mass noun]

1. archaic - food; nourishment.

2. Scots Law maintenance; alimony.

— origin late 15th cent. : from Latin alimentum, from alere ‘nourish’.

[Angela Woodford]

Nursing tomes on "Disorders of the Alimentary Canal"! Groan -

BTW, would you do "tome" one day, RR?

Munch

[J.R.]

Nursing tomes on "Disorders of the Alimentary Canal"! Groan -

BTW, would you do "tome" one day, RR?

Munch

I think you'll find it's Yorkshire dialect for 'gone shoppoing'


"I'm not a' tome'

[Richard Ruck]

Nursing tomes on "Disorders of the Alimentary Canal"! Groan -

BTW, would you do "tome" one day, RR?

Munch

I'll see what can be done!

As for today.....


bridewell

• noun archaic - a prison or reform school for petty offenders.

— origin mid 16th cent. : named after St Bride's Well in the City of London, near which such a building stood.

[cj]

By an amazing coincidence, the statues on St Brides, Fleet Street were done by David McFall who I'm sure is the father of an Old Blue who was on the year below me in 1s. He also did a sculpture that sits outside Canterbury Cathedral.

http://www.stbrides.com/history/stbride/index.htm

[Great Plum]

Wasn;t Bridewell one of the three hospitals founded with Edward VI along with CH?

[Katharine]

Wasn;t Bridewell one of the three hospitals founded with Edward VI along with CH?

I thought that too.

[Richard Ruck]

Something for the lovely weather we've been having:


pareu

noun - a kind of sarong made of a single straight piece of printed cotton cloth, worn in Polynesia or as a fashion garment elsewhere.
— origin Tahitian.

[Richard Ruck]

Something a little more erudite for Friday:


incunabulum

• noun (pl. incunabula) - an early printed book, especially one printed before 1501.

— origin early 19th cent. : from Latin incunabula (neuter plural) ‘swaddling clothes, cradle’, from in- ‘into’ + cunae ‘cradle’.

[Euterpe13]

Wasn;t Bridewell one of the three hospitals founded with Edward VI along with CH?

I thought that too.

Indeed it was, now called Kings Edwards School Witley ( my children will be delighted to know that they went to an establishment for petty offenders... explains a lot ! )

[Richard Ruck]

Is it really Monday already....?

Here we go, then:

holm

• noun Brit.

1. an islet, especially in a river or near a mainland.
2. a piece of flat ground by a river which is submerged in times of flood.

— origin Old English, from Old Norse holmr; more frequently used in Scotland and northern England, but found in place names throughout Britain.

This is one I remember from my younger days in Somerset - the islands of Steepholm and Flatholm are prominent features in the Bristol Channel.

[J.R.]

Is it really Monday already....?

Here we go, then:

holm

• noun Brit.

1. an islet, especially in a river or near a mainland.
2. a piece of flat ground by a river which is submerged in times of flood.

— origin Old English, from Old Norse holmr; more frequently used in Scotland and northern England, but found in place names throughout Britain.

This is one I remember from my younger days in Somerset - the islands of Steepholm and Flatholm are prominent features in the Bristol Channel.

.... Hence the 3 villages just south of Dorking on the A. 24 ?
South HOLMwood

Mid HOLMwood

and

North HOLMwood.

[Richard Ruck]

hypothecate

• verb [with obj.] pledge (money) by law to a specific purpose.

— derivatives
hypothecation noun.

— origin early 17th cent. : from medieval Latin hypothecat- ‘given as a pledge’, from the verb hypothecare, based on Greek hupotheke .

[Mid A 15]

hypothecate

• verb [with obj.] pledge (money) by law to a specific purpose.

— derivatives
hypothecation noun.

— origin early 17th cent. : from medieval Latin hypothecat- ‘given as a pledge’, from the verb hypothecare, based on Greek hupotheke .

Something they should do with taxes!

We might have some idea then where all the money goes