Today's word: thrimble (v.) to grudgingly repay a debt.

Some readers might be wondering who is being held at fault here; ordinary people, or politicians. It's both. The politicians, seeking to keep their jobs, deliver what they can't afford, and so condemn future generations to crippling debt, and resign them to the fact most of them will never enjoy what their parents took for granted. On the other hand, we as individuals like to spend like it's going out of style. We elect people to public office based on their empty promises to make us all better off; when in reality, the only pay packet most of them care about is their own.

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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