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Title: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: steiffyok on Saturday 08 September 18 16:56 BST (UK)

Hi Can anyone decipher these letters  of the word that looks like 'sumervoise' or 'sununervoise' which I think from memory were on a medical report from the army.

There were a few people with this  'condition' listed but I have been unable to find out what is may be.

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: Girl Guide on Saturday 08 September 18 20:30 BST (UK)

This is a tough one isn't it!  ::)

It looks like summervoise to me but it is proving hard to find anything close to this on medical dictionaries.

What year is this report?

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: Kay99 on Saturday 08 September 18 20:39 BST (UK)

I agree re Summervoise.   I wondered if it might be some sort of rash brought on in the summer heat  but this is pure speculation  :-\

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: roopat on Saturday 08 September 18 22:03 BST (UK)

I saw summervoise too & wondered if it was a term for freckles but can't find anything to suggest that except I now know the German for freckles is Sommersprossen - 'summer sprouts  ::)


Pat

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: Milliepede on Saturday 08 September 18 22:21 BST (UK)

How intriguing, will be interested to find out what it means.  Flushed complexion perhaps. 

Summer sprouts blimey  :-X

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: Erato on Saturday 08 September 18 23:06 BST (UK)

I checked synonyms for rashes, freckles, liver spots, sunburn, flushed skin, hives, wrinkles, moles, birthmarks, etc.  Can't find it.

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: bbart on Sunday 09 September 18 04:13 BST (UK)

Just when I was about to give up, I found this! Now that we know how to spell it, if you google it as summer voys (2 words), or summer-voys (hyphenated), google spits up a lot of old books with the term.

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: Kay99 on Sunday 09 September 18 04:49 BST (UK)

Well found  :)   A map showing the area it originated from  http://www.rootschat.com/links/01mod/    Love the other names freckles were also known by

Kay

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 09 September 18 05:02 BST (UK)

Well found bbart!  :)

I kept getting voise changed to voice, which was very frustrating!

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: Erato on Sunday 09 September 18 05:21 BST (UK)

Good job!  That's definitely a new word for me.  I'll have to try to work it into a conversation.

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: gaffy on Sunday 09 September 18 08:17 BST (UK)

Seems that folk were struggling with the term nearly 120 years ago, an article in the Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser of May 1899 included the following observation: 

... Of a morning I have seen as many as a half-dozen persons washing their faces and arms with dew on a fine May morn, but I don't remember that it removed the freckles, or, as they were more commonly called, "summer-voys," a word I cannot understand or find in any dictionary ...

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: Milliepede on Sunday 09 September 18 09:11 BST (UK)

Oh well done, so glad to know what it means. 

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: Flattybasher9 on Sunday 09 September 18 09:40 BST (UK)

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01moe/

Look under "Freckles"

Malky.

The link may be of assistance for other obscure terms/words.

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: steiffyok on Sunday 09 September 18 09:59 BST (UK)

Thank you so so much .... I had the correct word then with summervoise but the spelling is a variant. I also tried searching freckles but did not get the same marvellous selection that you have. Brilliant start to my day   ...  :)

Title: Re: Possible medical facial blemish or condition unknown term
Post by: Skoosh on Sunday 09 September 18 21:43 BST (UK)

Flushed with success!  ;D

Skoosh.