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Today's word: dissight (n.) an eyesore; anything unpleasant to look upon.

The top image is an open-cut gold mine in Western Australia. To give you an idea of the size, the bottom image is a haul-truck used in the pit. It is larger than your average house. The tiny black dots you can see scattered around the mine floor are these trucks. There is a gold mine less than half an hour from my house bigger than the one in the photo.

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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