Cannot recognise Latin word in record

[Geoff]

Could someone please tell me what this Latin word is and means.

Many thanks in advance.

[Chris Pitt Lewis]

Post by Geoff
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?

[Geoff]

Post by Geoff
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?
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Chris Pitt Lewis

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Many thanks for that!

Although I am on latest Windows 10, I still use the old Windows Live Mail.
This has the option of "Attach file" at the top.
There is probably something similar in your newsreader.

Geoff

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 at 17:05:13, Geoff <***@btinternet.com> wrote
(my responses usually FOLLOW):
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Post by Chris Pitt Lewis
I didn't think it was possible to send a jpg attachment to this
newsgroup. How did you manage it?
--
Chris Pitt Lewis
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Many thanks for that!
Although I am on latest Windows 10, I still use the old Windows Live Mail. This has the option of "Attach file" at the top.
There is probably something similar in your newsreader.
Geoff

It's not what you send with, it's the news server you use - some allow
attachments, some only below a certain size, some don't but do pass on
posts that already contain them.

As for WLM: could you switch to something else, or at least to a version
before (I think it was) version 15? It screws up posting royally, i. e.
doesn't insert _anything_ (such as ">") to indicate which is text quoted
from the previous post, and which is your new text. In addition, you're
posting below the previous poster's signature (denoted by the "-- " line
[note the space]), so your text appears in my newsreader - and I'm sure
others - as if it's part of their signature (in my case in blue), so I
tend not to really see it.

May sound petty/nitpicking, but I have known other newsgroups where
people using WLM version 15 (I think) or later have actually been
killfiled by those fed up of trying to work out who said what in posts
from it!

You might have a look at http://www.dusko-lolic.from.hr/wlmquote/ ,
which was touted as a fix for WLM, a bit like OE-Quotefix was for
Outlook Express; I don't know if it's any good.

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Post by Chris Pitt Lewis

Post by Geoff
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.

Agreed, see my other post.

Post by Chris Pitt Lewis
I didn't think it was possible to send a jpg attachment to this
newsgroup. How did you manage it?

Some newsservers do allow attachments, sometimes only below a certain
size; some don't for their own users, but sometimes pass on such posts
if received from their peers rather than their users.

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Post by Geoff
Could someone please tell me what this Latin word is and means.
Many thanks in advance.
[ A MIME image / jpeg part was included here. ]

I don't think it's Latin; the rest of the page has no Latin - usually
there's at least some, such as "erat" for "was".

My first thought is that it's Smith: Margery Hastings Smith, Ann
Hollsmith, Baircroft Edwards Smith. But it does look like it has a
double letter at the end.

Could it be "widd" (widow)?

I'd like to find the same letter in the same hand - it looks a bit like
his d (compare "Thomas Wa*** widdower"), but it has a line through it -
but I can't see any other such on the page, or at least the bit you've
given us. Though that "widdower" does show he spells that with a double
d, and the "wi" do look very like the ones you've highlighted.

[Geoff]

Post by Geoff
Could someone please tell me what this Latin word is and means.
Many thanks in advance.
[ A MIME image / jpeg part was included here. ]

I don't think it's Latin; the rest of the page has no Latin - usually
there's at least some, such as "erat" for "was".

My first thought is that it's Smith: Margery Hastings Smith, Ann
Hollsmith, Baircroft Edwards Smith. But it does look like it has a
double letter at the end.

Could it be "widd" (widow)?

I'd like to find the same letter in the same hand - it looks a bit like
his d (compare "Thomas Wa*** widdower"), but it has a line through it -
but I can't see any other such on the page, or at least the bit you've
given us. Though that "widdower" does show he spells that with a double
d, and the "wi" do look very like the ones you've highlighted.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)***@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

You know what the big secret about posh people is? Most of them are lovely.
- Richard Osman, RT 2016/7/9-15

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Many thanks. Chris Pitt Lewis has just indicated that it is "Widow" as
well, so I'll go along with that.

Thanks to both of you.