generic and uninspired posting

So I was reading about Jenny McCarthy’s epic, Shakespearean in magnitude, yet ultimately futile efforts to not crap all over the floor, when I began to contemplate the word diarrhea. It looked odd to me, spelled that way. I much prefer the fancy-lad spelling diarrhœa. Needing to know the correct spelling of diarrhœa, I consulted Volume IV (Creel-Duzepere) of the OED. What I found knocked my socks off. Or it would have, if I had been wearing socks. (I prefer sandals and socklessness.) Here’s the definition for diarrhœa:

A disorder consisting in the too frequent evacuation of too fluid fæces, sometimes attended with griping pains.