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Provided by the compucert admonition \ad-muh-NISH-uhn\, noun:
- Gentle or friendly reproof.
- Counseling against a fault or oversight; friendly caution or warning.
Admonition derives from Latin admonitio, admonition-, from admonitus, past participle of admonere, to remind, or warn, strongly, from ad- (here used intensively) + monere, to remind, to warn.
comestible \kuh-MES-tuh-buhl\, adjective:
- Suitable to be eaten; edible.
- Something suitable to be eaten; food.
Comestible comes from Late Latin comestibilis, from comestus, from comesus, past participle of comedere, "to eat up, to consume," from com-, intensive prefix + edere, "to eat."
- The abdomen area of a pregnant woman. As the fetus/baby grows so does a woman's belly. Thus it is referred to as a "baby bump."
"Looking at the size of her baby bump she must be due any day."
"Is she getting fatter or is that a baby bump?"
Trivia
How did the gemstone turquoise get its name?
- It was originally imported to Europe through Turkey. In French, turquoise means “from Turkey,” or “Turkish.”
- Great Fire of London: three-day conflagration started in a baker's shop; 80% of the city's structures were destroyed, including St. Paul's Cathedral (1666)
- "Speak softly and carry a big stick": policy was enunciated by US vice president Theodore Roosevelt at the Minnesota State Fair (1901)
- Liliuokalani (1838-1917): last reigning queen of Hawaii
- Peter Ueberroth (71): former baseball commissioner and 1984's Time "Man of the Year"; other athletes born on this date include John Thompson (67), Nate Archibald (60), Jimmy Connors (56) and Eric Dickerson (48)
- Mark Harmon (57): Jethro Gibbs of NCIS; also, actors Linda Purl (53), Keanu Reeves (44), Salma Hayek (42), and Cynthia Watros and Kristen Cloke (both 40)
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