Today's word: mrkgnao (n.) a cat's meow.

Yes, apparently it's a real word, first coined by James Joyce in his novel Ulysses (which I haven't read). One of several spellings he employs throughout the novel. I've used the plural form, as I hate trying to rhyme poems with an odd number of lines (limericks excepted).

I hope Dawn will forgive me!

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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