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Happy Monday! With the holidays and stress from my illustrative work I have become lax with my wordly duties not once, not twice but three times! I'm also well behind with posting these to our facebook group. For shame!

Today I bring you four words to make up for my absence: two colour-themed words to mark the beginning of my colour-themed posts and two other words which are slightly different to the words I normally aim to post. Just something special in an effort to make it up to all of you! I hope your holidays have been splendiferous, no matter what your faith or traditions.

 

 

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Love Tahlia, a little upset with herself for making reference to Twilight next to LOTR and Harry Potter.

 

Interregnum

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Good morning! For my first ever post I bring you the word Interregnum (in·ter·reg·num), noun, Latin.

1. The interval of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of a successor.
2. A period of temporary suspension of the usual functions of government or control.
3. A gap in continuity.
[Latin : inter-, inter- + rgnum, reign]

Despite the etymology, the term can be applied to not only a time period between monarchs, but also that between popes, emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, the pastorates of ministers in some Protestant churches, the period of time between the election of a new President of the United States and his or her inauguration (during which the outgoing president remains in power, but as a lame duck) and the period between the election of a new parliament and the establishment of a new government from that parliament in parliamentary democracies.