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They can be quite fun, sometimes
A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities
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Bored games
by CD Richards
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Although losing isn't a sin,
we're all of us trying to win.
When playing at Scrabble,
if a word looks like babble,
we look it up in our calepin.
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Author Notes
This is a catch-up for a missed day. Can you tell?
Today's word:
calepin (n.) a dictionary, a book of authority or reference.
Pronounced kale-pin.
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.
Thanks for reading.
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