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Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:58 am
by englishangel
cj wrote:J.R. wrote:
Looks like you've reached the
PEAK of your exasperation, Mary !!
You can't go further to
top that. The CHA ought to provide an
apogee for their word-bastardisation or it may
culminate in protest.
to be fair I don't think it is from the CHA I think it is from the Cancer Care (or whomever) website
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 4:10 pm
by FrogBoxed
englishangel wrote:cj wrote:J.R. wrote:
Looks like you've reached the
PEAK of your exasperation, Mary !!
You can't go further to
top that. The CHA ought to provide an
apogee for their word-bastardisation or it may
culminate in protest.
to be fair I don't think it is from the CHA I think it is from the Cancer Care (or whomever) website
I cringed when I added that news article, but Mary's right, it's an email newsletter from the support team, not the CHA's words and I baulk at altering other people's press releases, etc...
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:48 pm
by cj
I wasn't apportioning blame anywhere - I just had to get in the word apogee.
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 8:18 am
by Richard Ruck
Today's word:
tenter
• noun - a framework on which fabric can be held taut for drying or other treatment during manufacture.
— origin Middle English: from medieval Latin tentorium.
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 9:08 am
by Mrs C.
as in "on tenterhooks" presumably
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 9:15 am
by Richard Ruck
Mrs C. wrote:as in "on tenterhooks" presumably
Correct!
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 10:19 am
by englishangel
A bit of midwifery here.
The membrane across the base of the brain is called the tentorium. (tent-shaped)
The blood supply to the brain runs through it and often if a baby (especially a pre-term one) is delivered badly and bleeds into the brain it is becasue there is a tentorial tear.
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:25 pm
by J.R.
englishangel wrote:A bit of midwifery here.
The membrane across the base of the brain is called the tentorium. (tent-shaped)
The blood supply to the brain runs through it and often if a baby (especially a pre-term one) is delivered badly and bleeds into the brain it is becasue there is a tentorial tear.
Does the N.H.S. have to
CANVAS for surgeouns to repair the damage ???
Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:47 pm
by Richard Ruck
sortition
• noun [mass noun] - the action of selecting or determining something by the casting or drawing of lots.
— origin late 16th cent.: from Latin sortitio(n-), from sortire ‘divide or obtain by lot’.
Hmmm, the latin noun sounds like a minor character from 'Up Pompeii' (once again!).
Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 4:08 pm
by Richard Ruck
Sorry, I've been neglecting this thread lately....
meronym
• noun Linguistics - a term which denotes part of something but which is used to refer to the whole of it, e.g. faces when used to mean people in "I see several familiar faces present".
— derivatives
meronymy noun.
— origin from Greek meros ‘part’ + onuma ‘name’.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:02 am
by Rory
Talking of meronymy,
It has a second meaning -
An Old Blue could be a meronym - if you're talking about OB's that have sadly passed away and current pupils of the school, then as I understand it Old Blues are meronyms.
Or - if you have three pints of beer one evening - is the second one a meronym???
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:09 am
by Richard Ruck
And further.........
I used to do business with a bloke in Japan whose surname was Onuma.
A Japanese surname which means 'name' in Greek. Very odd.
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:12 am
by Exiled_in_Rome
...and when it comes to names, it strikes me as quite remarkable that in english, the country name "Turkey" denotes a bird too, and is the only country that has a name that is also a bird.. and that in Portuguese (and Spanish)... the country name for Turkey means nothing but the name for the country, whereas the name Peru also denotes.. yep, you've guessed it.. a turkey....
not as concise as Onuma but still..
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:38 am
by Rory
The Canaries???
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:49 am
by DavebytheSea
Exiled_in_Rome wrote:...and when it comes to names, it strikes me as quite remarkable that in english, the country name "Turkey" denotes a bird too, and is the only country that has a name that is also a bird.. and that in Portuguese (and Spanish)... the country name for Turkey means nothing but the name for the country, whereas the name Peru also denotes.. yep, you've guessed it.. a turkey....
not as concise as Onuma but still..
What about Crowashia?