Throat lozenges got their name from the shape they were originally made in - a lozenge being a diamond shape - 4 sides, 2 acute angles and 2 obtuse. :-) Cheers, Liz in Melbourne Quoting Ruth Barton <mrgjb@sover.net>: > The lozenges confuse me, here a lozenge is a sore throat med you suck on so > it slowly disolves. Ruth > snip

I missed earlier mail on this, but an interesting case is the Montagu arms; argent, three fusils in fesse. A fesse is slightly fatter (more rhombus-shaped) than a lozenge. Even then, in fesse (a conjoined row) they are usually termed lozenges; but the Montagu arms are an exception. My wife's 2gtgrandfather, Rev. Octavius Freire Owen, born 1816, had a bookplate with the Owen arms quartered with Travers impaled per pale with those of his wife, Emily Montague. (Montagu quartered with Stephens). Maybe this entitles us to patent the sandwich or lay claim to the Sandwich isles (Hawaii), since they derive from Lord John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich! Does anyone know how heraldically valid such victorian bookplates are likely to be? Were they occasionally fudged a bit? John Barton ----- Original Message ----- From: <emagar@hotkey.net.au> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 12:41 AM Subject: RE: [OEL] question Doctors Commons > Throat lozenges got their name from the shape they were originally made in - > a lozenge being a diamond shape - 4 sides, 2 acute angles and 2 obtuse. > :-) > > Cheers, > > Liz in Melbourne > > Quoting Ruth Barton <mrgjb@sover.net>: > > > The lozenges confuse me, here a lozenge is a sore throat med you suck on so > > it slowly disolves. Ruth > > > snip > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > OLD-ENGLISH Web Page > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > >