I hope, while writing this, I don't nod off;
for that might cause my audience to scoff.
My nappishness will bring me down;
to them, I will appear a clown.
So, if you see me fall asleep, please "cough".
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Author Notes
Today's word: nappishness (n.) sleepiness; a tendency to nap.
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Thanks for reading.
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 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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