home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   soc.genealogy.britain      Genealogy in Great Britain and the islan      130,039 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 129,634 of 130,039   
   Chris Pitt Lewis to Geoff   
   Re: Cannot recognise Latin word in recor   
   20 Mar 22 16:57:10   
   
   From: chris@cjpl.co.uk   
      
   On 20/03/2022 16:13, Geoff wrote:   
   > Could someone please tell me what this Latin word is and means.   
   >   
   > Many thanks in advance.   
      
   It is "widd", i.e. widow. So English, not Latin; the line through the dd   
   indicates that it is abbreviated.   
      
   I didn't think it was possible to send a jpg attachment to this   
   newsgroup. How did you manage it?   
      
   --   
   Chris Pitt Lewis   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca