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Moonie posted:
El Loro posted:

If any of you have wondered where the word suffragette came from, it came from the Latin word suffragium meaning a vote.
An article on the Latin word:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/T...GRA*/Suffragium.html

Do we know who first use the word ‘Suffragette’ El? 

Originally the various women's suffrage groups called themselves suffragists. Then in 1906, Charles E Hands, a joumalist wrote an article in the London Daily Mail deriding them calling them suffragettes. The suffragists decided to embrace the term hardening the g to suffraGETtes to show that they had every intention of getting the right to vote. The word suffrage comes from the French word (same spelling) which came from the Latin word I mentioned. Suffrage does not come from the word suffer which comes from a different Latin word.

El Loro

Good morning everyone

 

Sunny with some clouds and still cold here - the amount of snow which fell here yesterday was no more than a few flakes.

 

Yesterday was the day the BBC ceased using the Met Office for weather data by moving over to a Dutch provider called Meteogroup. That's why their maps have changed. On the BBC site, you now get data for each hour for 14 days and a map for today and tomorrow or for the coming week by 3 hourly periods for the first couple of days then 6 hourly.

 

I hope everyone has a good day

El Loro

*night owls* ðŸĶ‰ good evening I hope you’ve all had a good day 

 

i had planned a lazy day today but the sun came out and we had blues skies.. after a lovely walk, I’ve done my best Cinderella impression on my house and my best Jamie Oliver impression in the kitchen  

 

squiggle, how was the panna cota?  

 

Sweet dreams everyone  

~Sparkling Summer~
El Loro posted:

On my local news website. The article makes no mention of anyone being injured. It's not known how this happened - no other vehicles involved and the car has since been removed.

 Yikes, El!

 

Hi everyone. Forgot to post in here this morning.

lol Summer, we should call you Cinderoliver from now on 

Moonie, it’s chilly up here too....and rainy.

Glad you enjoyed the panna cotta, Squiggle.

Yogi19
El Loro posted:

Moonie, sounds as if the wind there was what was making you feel so cold, I hope you are warm and cosy now

 

I'm not sure the driver of that car was parking. Might have been making a three point turn at speed

The time I was out and in, the wind didn’t have time to land on me El  

Warm and cosy I am a fankoo 

 

It makes you wonder how anyone walked away from that car 

 

Yogi, I hope you’re warm and cosy now 

Moonie

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