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Today's word: asmatographer (n.) a dealer or writer of songs or sheet music.

I've never seen Carole King live, although I've seen live shows devoted to her music. This is just a bit of fun, because the word of the day instantly brought her to mind. Fans might recognise that each line in the second stanza contains the name of one of her songs.

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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