Odd Seldom used Words

[Cousin Jack]

Wont

As in "As is your wont".

[Horse]

Remigration.

Not a word we come across very often. Let's hope it starts becoming more common...

I wasn't sure whether you'd made it up, so Googled.

Apparently:

The act of migrating back to one's original home after a period of migration. The term comes from the Classical Latin word remigrāre, which means "to return home". It was first used in English by Andrew Willet, a theologian in the Church of England in the early 17th century.

So if we take its Latin root (first Roman invasion of 55BC)
as a starting point in this island, how far do you want to go back?

Romans, Vikings, Normans, Angles, Saxons ...

Walking along the town's high street (although it's not called that), we have Lebanese, Indian, Ghurka and Thai restaurants all within 200m.

Before my neuro surgery, I saw four consultants. None were of long UK 'history'.

And, FWIW, my surname dates back to the Crusades and my wife's can be traced back in parish records to the 1500s.

Who do you think should go or stay, how is it decided?

It's a word still in use. Are we not allowed to use words of older origin then, as that's going to slaughter our vocabulary!

Use it as much as you like. I didn't say no-one should.

I asked how far back the "migrating back to one's original home after a period" applied? Given that the UK is marvelously multi-cultural, and has been invaded umpteen times and welcomed many refugees (like the 40,000 Ugandans Idl Amin expelled in 1972), who should be going?

Someone else asked a different question.

Neither answered, though.

[Count Steer]

I wasn't sure whether you'd made it up, so Googled.

Apparently:

The act of migrating back to one's original home after a period of migration. The term comes from the Classical Latin word remigrāre, which means "to return home". It was first used in English by Andrew Willet, a theologian in the Church of England in the early 17th century.

So if we take its Latin root (first Roman invasion of 55BC)
as a starting point in this island, how far do you want to go back?

Romans, Vikings, Normans, Angles, Saxons ...

Walking along the town's high street (although it's not called that), we have Lebanese, Indian, Ghurka and Thai restaurants all within 200m.

Before my neuro surgery, I saw four consultants. None were of long UK 'history'.

And, FWIW, my surname dates back to the Crusades and my wife's can be traced back in parish records to the 1500s.

Who do you think should go or stay, how is it decided?

It's a word still in use. Are we not allowed to use words of older origin then, as that's going to slaughter our vocabulary!

Use it as much as you like. I didn't say no-one should.

I asked how far back the "migrating back to one's original home after a period" applied? Given that the UK is marvelously multi-cultural, and has been invaded umpteen times and welcomed many refugees (like the 40,000 Ugandans Idl Amin expelled in 1972), who should be going?

Someone else asked a different question.

Neither answered, though.

Them Huguenots have got to go though. But, of course, politics seems to have slithered over from behind the cordon sanitaire of the appropriate forum. Oh. I wonder who did that?

*drums fingers*

[cheb]

But I like it here.

Family lore has it that my mother's side of the family were descended from Huguenots.

[Count Steer]

But I like it here.

Family lore has it that my mother's side of the family were descended from Huguenots.

Yes, and while we are 'huguely' grateful to your family contribution to the silk, jewelry, haberdashery, and paper industries we don't have much of them any more, so you can go home.

The word I learned today isn't frequently used because it's a cluster of stars. 'Praesepe'.

[Noggin]

Why? Who is it you want back in the country.

Not Noggers. The NHS can't afford her

OTOH she would make an excellent case study for surgeons.

Oi! Harsh but true!! LOL

Mind you, the uk surgeons wouldn't do the surgery I had here (wouldn't be able to use the arm afterwards apparently) so actually, I'll stay here thanks

[MyLittleStudPony]

It's really two words, nicely combined.

"Burly lag". Made me minded of Iccy.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/30204384/ ... ankle-tag/

[Mr. Dazzle]

Cabotage.

Breaking machines by throwing leafy greens into them?

Transport between 2 places in the same country.

Makes me think of 'flotsam' and 'jetsam', which are actually subtly different things. One being stuff accidentally lost overboard and one stuff which was deliberately ejected. There are other words for stuff on the bottom of the sea and a few other categories too IIRC.

[gremlin]

Makes me think of 'flotsam' and 'jetsam', which are actually subtly different things. One being stuff accidentally lost overboard and one stuff which was deliberately ejected. There are other words for stuff on the bottom of the sea and a few other categories too IIRC.

Jizzam?

[Count Steer]

Breaking machines by throwing leafy greens into them?

Transport between 2 places in the same country.

Makes me think of 'flotsam' and 'jetsam', which are actually subtly different things. One being stuff accidentally lost overboard and one stuff which was deliberately ejected. There are other words for stuff on the bottom of the sea and a few other categories too IIRC.

For wreckage/goods at the bottom - 'lagan'. (Often used for stuff attached to a buoy with a view to recovery).