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Lotfi Zadeh is known as "the father of fuzzy logic". I had the great pleasure of meeting him when I was a student of AI at university. He came across as an incredibly caring and thoughtful man. Highly intelligent goes without saying. He died last year at age 96.

Today's word:

propinque: approximate, approaching accuracy.

Note: after my initial version of this poem, I learned the correct pronunciation is "pro-pin-kway" (many thanks to frierajac). This resulted in a modification of the last stanza to maintain the rhyme!

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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