TotallyOz Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Here is the word for this week: weal \WEEL\, noun: 1. Well-being, prosperity, or happiness. 2. A raised mark on the surface of the body produced by a blow. 3. (Obsolete:) the state or body politic. Our difference of opinion amounts to this, that you make the mainspring self-interest, while I suppose that interest in the common weal is bound to exist in every man of a certain age of achievement. -- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina The Prime Minister's recent call on physicians to be more mindful about the health needs of the poor may have come from a genuine concern for the weal of the large swathes of people who fall under that head. -- Nerun Yakub, "Calling on physicians to perform better," Financial Express, October, 2010 Weal shares the Old English root wela with welfare and a host of other English words. The ultimate source in Proto-Indo-European is wel-, which is also the ancestor of words related to will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lucky Posted December 2, 2010 Members Share Posted December 2, 2010 Lucky was being a bit of a curmudgeon that week. Please ignore as I have apologized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotallyOz Posted December 2, 2010 Author Share Posted December 2, 2010 Lucky was being a bit of a curmudgeon that week. Please ignore as I have apologized. LOL I was only teasing. But, thank you for using the word curmudgeon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MsGuy Posted December 2, 2010 Members Share Posted December 2, 2010 Curmudgeon \ kur-MUDJ-uhn \ noun 1. a bad tempered, difficult, cantankerous person. 2. a surly or miserly person. I wouldn't go that far. Cranky at times, maybe... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
