Today's word: desulture (n.) the act of vaulting from one horse to another.

As I post, the Australian Liberal Party (conservative, despite the name), is in the process of deciding whether we will have our 6th change of leader in eleven years. Changing horses in mid-stream has become something of a way of life here. However, it was not the Australian government I had in mind while I was writing this.

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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