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A nursery rhyme

A chapter in the book A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities

Scrambled eggs

by CD Richards


Proditomaniac built a great wall.

Proditomaniac had a great fall.

One Great Pretender, on his last legs—

let's throw a party, and have scrambled eggs.

 




Today's word:

proditomania (n.) the irrational belief that everyone around you is a traitor.

My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.

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